Henry Lawrence's Desk

Henry Lawrence's Desk

This desk belonged to Henry Lawrence, John Ashbery’s grandfather, beginning in the early 1890s.  He used it first at Cornell University where he was finishing a PhD in Physics.  He moved the desk to his new home at 69 Dartmouth Street in Rochester in the late 1890s. When he moved permanently to Pultneyville in 1934, he took the desk with him.  Ashbery brought it to the Hudson house after his mother’s death in 1987.