Colonnade Row Westchester marble and linked with a colonnade of Corinthian columns providing the homes with their current name. The marble for the buildings was found at Sing Sing, where the convicts worked to cut it for use in construction. The precise year of the buildings' construction, as well as the architect responsible are subject to some debate. The architects generally credited with Colonnade Row's design is Alexander Jackson Davis, Ithiel Town, and James Dakin, who were believed to have designed the homes for the Astor and Vanderbilt families. Town and Dakin are believed to have begun work on the project, which
White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs photographs and measured drawings complemented the "Comparative Details" feature which published construction details for contemporary projects. The Monograph series was ended abruptly in June 1940. Many of its contributors became involved in the Historic American Buildings Survey. Eagerly collected by architects and historians, the monographs have been re-issued in bound editions several times. In 1987 the National Historical Society of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania began publishing a series of hardbound books, the Architectural Treasures of Early America, drawn entirely from the "White Pine Monographs". They reorganized the individual editions into geographic regions and re-set all the type in order to produce a