"Harbor Hill" 



The Estate of Clarence H. Mackay, Esq., Roslyn, New York 



R. MACKAY'S house, "Harbor Hill," is a stately, dignified composition, the some- 

 what severe front being gracioush' relieved by the excellent carving of the dooi^way. 

 It is built of a pale, delicate gray stone of delightful tone and color. 



A great, cool gray hall fills the center. It is two stories in height, paneled 

 throughout in oak, with oak columns and pilasters and coffered ceiling. The windows opposite 

 the entrance look out on to the head of Hempstead Bay. The chief adornments are four sets 

 of old oak choir stalls from a church in Europe, exquisitely carved and beatitiful works of art. 

 The chimneypiece, a fine old spoil from a European palace, is so huge that the wood of a single 

 tree can be burned within it. The planning of the house is simple. In the center is the hall; 

 at the entrance, stretching away right and left, is a wide corridor, at the left end of which is 

 the main stairway — oak, like all the woodwork in the open public parts of the ground floor, 



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"HARBOR HILL," IIIK IIOL SE OF CLARENCE 11. MACkAY, ES(J.— THE TERRACE. 



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