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crowbar when there were upheaved on the surface enough stones to 

 completely cover the ground to a depth of several feet and in a single 

 winter on less than a dozen acres have had ten thousand inches 

 drilled and dynamited, yet Orange is hardly sixty miles 'cross country 

 from Hillcrest Manor.* 



RED TOWERS. 



America's Giant Causeway. 



Red Towers savors a bit too much perhaps of the aggressive in 

 architecture, yet is a dream of comfort within, while without a half 

 dozen years' growth of trees and vines softened and toned its outline. 

 Red Towers was a compromise between Queen Anne and an effort to 

 do something out of the ordinary, a common failing, but standing for 

 progress. It had many good points towering above its neighbors 

 in its sheath of green, with foundation of selected hard brown 

 sand stone, first story trap rock, similar to that in the Giant's 

 Causeway in Ireland, and taken from a pillared rock deposit in the 

 Orange Mountains, whose broken surface is almost a jet black and 

 hard as flint hearsay states it's the only Giant's Causeway in America. 

 The mortar joints were red ; the balance of the house, both side 

 walls and roof, covered with red tile, ornamented on chimney face 

 and banded under the balcony with terra cotta bas-reliefs, while the 

 tower was copied from one built on College Hill in Burlington, that 



*The man who reduces acts to figures and glories in statistics states that allowing fifty 

 cents a day for labor the stone walls of Connecticut equal in cost the improvements of all kinds 

 in the entire state. 



