"Indian Harbor" 



The House of E. C. Benedict, Esq., Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Connecticut 



[IVEN an irregular piece of land, jutting out into the waters of Long Island Sound — 

 a veritable peninsula — a liberal appropriation of money for buildings and a garden, 

 a fine taste and vast enthusiasm on the part of the architects, and there is no wonder 

 at all that Mr. E. C. Benedict's house at Indian Harbor is one of the most beautiful 

 country houses in America. The irregular shores of Connecticut contain many fine sites for 

 handsome homes, but the whole coast contains nothing more picturesque than Indian Harbor, 

 an irregularly shaped rock that runs out so far into the water as to take the house quite beyond 

 the limits of the mainland. It is a wonderful situation, a scene of utmost peace and charm; 

 and the great house built here is, with its subsidiary buildings, one of the finest residences in 

 America. 



It is a veritable palace, a house of great size, built so far out on its rock as to be prac- 

 tically surrounded on three sides by the waters of the Sound. It is approached by a curving 

 driveway that presently enters a formal treatment of its bordering land. Immediately to the 

 left is the house of Mr. Frank S. 

 Hastings, Mr. Benedict's secre- 

 tary, itself a fine and beau- 

 tiful dwelling rising directly 

 above the water, and connected 

 with Mr. Benedict's own house 

 by a stately pergola, built 

 directly above the wall which 

 skirts the land, and which 

 rises in steps to the higher 

 level on which the greater 

 house is built. 



And very splendid this 

 mansion is, designed in a pure 

 Italian stjde, a stately Italian 

 palace built on this quiet New 

 England shore, whose rocky 

 surface has been transformed 

 into a superb formal garden in 



THE TERRACE OF "INDIAN HARBOR. 



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