AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



Mrs. Mackay's bedroom comes next, and then the bathroom, with its famous bath, 

 chiseled out of a single piece of rich marble and let into the floor — a room unlike any 

 bathroom, with rich furnishings, lamps, easy-chairs, tables, and plants. 



"Harbor Hill" is no single country house, isolated in the midst of rural surroundings. 

 It is the center of a vast estate of five hundred or six hundred acres, with many separate 

 buildings for the greater development and the more thorough enjoyment of country life. The 

 carriage house and stable is quite palatial, with magnificent appointments for the horses, 

 a special suite for the head coachman, and comfortable quarters for the men. The farm bam is 

 a separate structure, admirably equipped for the extensive farming operations carried on here; 

 and the farmer's house is an old Long Island farmhouse, long standing, and thoroughly 

 restored and kept in fine order. There are kennels for the dogs, a special stable for the polo 

 ponies, chicken houses and duck houses, conservatories and storage houses for bay trees, 

 a dairy, and special houses for the men in charge of each department. 



Yet all these building features pale before the lovely attractiveness of the woods and 

 drives. No less than ten miles of bridle paths — quite wide enough for a carriage — traverse 

 the hills and valleys of this lovely estate, in which both nature and art have been combined 

 in a thoroughly delightful manner, and so happily that the cultivated borders of the 

 driveways — ^beautifully planted with flowering shrubs and greened with well-trimmed grass — 

 merge naturally into the wilder beauty of the forests which still cover much of the land. 

 There is true wildness in these woodlands, and Mrs. Mackay's own little rustic cottage, deep 

 in the woods, and placed jtist where the views across the cotmtry are finest, is a tinily wood 

 retreat from the more modern splendors of the palace on the hill summit. 



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