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of a square table. A compromise serving pantry was made from a 

 closet with doors opening into both dining room and kitchen. 



The front door had transom and side lights of "ye olden tyme," 

 and all trim as stated was of pronounced Colonial type. A 

 quaint and attractive staircase, columned living room, half a dozen 

 cosy bedrooms, and a long room, half studio and half bedroom, over 

 the porte cochere, all helped to make up a sightly and livable 

 house. 



Years after, like four others of my creation, guided by sturdy 

 horse and windlass, it strolled inland to give place to a more pre- 

 tentious dwelling, but the quintette still exist as homes in the 

 truest sense. 



Harbor View. 



A couple of stone entrance posts and a winding drive between 

 trees that shade a roadway leading to the shores of the Sound reveal 

 a wonderful panoramic view of island, sea, and headland as strikingly 

 beautiful in its way as that which suddenly greets the beholder as 

 he crosses for the first time the threshold of the Catskill House and 

 sees at his feet the valley of the Hudson, or emerges from the darkness 

 of the Haverstraw tunnel into the blaze of light revealing the 

 startlingly beautiful view of that same Hudson flowing toward the 

 sea. 



The development in lagoon and curving waterways is akin to - 

 fair Venice. Indeed, Connecticut's "Harbor View" or "Yachtsman's 

 Shelter" is even more than the name implies, for it includes not only 

 lagoon, harbor, and Sound views, but the beautiful woods through 

 which the driveway reaches the shore are parked and arboretumed with 

 rare skill. Houses of stone and stucco, shingle and brick, on wooded; 

 crag and hillock, fringe beach and cliff. 



