A designer of major public buildings and private homes, Alexander Jackson Davis is credited with introducing the "castle" to the Hudson River Valley. With the completion of Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, NY on the Hudson River, came the comparison of that river to the Rhine of Europe. Davis is known for his success with the Greek Revival style, exemplified by the state capitol buildings which he designed for Raleigh, NC, and Indianapolis, IN. He perhaps is known better for his work on country houses in a sub-style of Gothic known as "picturesque."