HOMES NEAR TO NATURE 



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Country, Suburbs and Seashore. 



Volume V MARCH, 1913 



Number 11 



A Beautiful Home on Fairfield Beach 



BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW, 



HE northern coast of Long" 

 Island Sound has long been 

 famous for its attractive res- 

 idences. Nowhere on the 

 beach of Fairfield County 

 have disfiguring" buildings, 

 factories or manufacturing 

 establishments been placed on the 

 points that jut into the Sound. We 

 already have called attention to one 

 beautiful home at Indian Harbor, a 

 point of land projecting from the south- 

 ern coast of Greenwich. Toward the 



Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



Point, and still farther east there are 

 \\ allack's Point, Collender's Point and 

 others. 



It seems as if Mother Nature must 

 have been looking well into the future 

 when she erected these capes or penin- 

 sulas and prepared them for beautiful 

 estates where the busy and successful 

 man of New York City might flee from 

 the turmoil and the stress and strain of 

 business care in that great and ever 

 widening metropolis. 



Among all these places of refuge 



THE ENTRANCE TO "WALIIALL. 



east there are several such points. 

 Greenwich is also preeminently favored 

 with her Riverside and Sound Beach, 



one of the most attractive is that of 

 "Walhall" at Riverside, Connecticut, 

 occupied by Mr. J. Langeloth, Presi- 



which are practically capes spreading dent of The American Metal Company, 

 wide into the Sound. Eastward Stam- Ltd., New York, and a well-known ex- 

 ford has the well-known Shippan pert in all matters pertaining to mining 



Copyrigiit 1913 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



