Arthur C. Jackson

Arthur Cornelius Jackson (September 19, 1866 – April 7, 1941) was an American architect, based in New York City. He is best known today as the architect of Lasata, the childhood summer home in East Hampton, New York of a future First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Early life Jackson was born in Utica, New York on September 19, 1866.

He was educated at Utica Free Academy before attending Harvard University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1888. He then went to Paris, studied in the Atelier Durer, before graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts. Between 1909 and 1911, he worked in the office of LaFarge & Morris. He had worked with Benjamin Wistar Morris at Carrère and Hastings on the designs for the New York Public Library. Christopher Grant LaFarge, the eldest son of artist John La Farge, had previously been a partner of George Lewis Heins in Heins & LaFarge until Heins' death in 1907. In 1911, he started his own firm, "devoting himself principally to the design of city and country private homes".

In 1917, he designed Lasata in East Hampton, New York for George W. Schurman and his wife, Helen ( Munro) Schurman. The home was later owned by John Vernou Bouvier Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather.

Notable buildings

Utica Public Library, Utica, New York (1901) Alvin W. Krech Townhouse, 17 East 70th Street, New York City (1909) 11 East 89th Street, New York City (1912–3) Arthur Ryle House, 787 Park Avenue, New York City (1913) Dexter Blagden Townhouse, 41 East 51st Street, New York City but has since been torn down and replaced by the Blackrock headquarters. Lawrence York Spear House, New London, Connecticut National Surety Building, 4 Albany Street, New York City (1921) Dexter Blagden House, 713 Navesink River Road, Middletown Township, New Jersey (1927) Shepard Kretch House ("Briar Patch"), 100 Briarpatch Road, East Hampton, New York (1931)

Personal life He lived at 124 West 55th Street in Manhattan. A member of the University Club of New York, he served as Chairman of the Art Committee in 1917.

Jackson, who never married, died at Useppa Island, an island located near the northern end of Pine Island Sound in Lee County, Florida, in 1941. He was buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica. He was visiting at the home of Albert Rathbone (a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury).