"The Orchard" 



The House of James Lawrence Breese, Esq., Southampton, New York 



HE word "Hospitality" is writ large over this fine mansion; for the house is a 

 mansion, though the design is simple, the architecture restrained, the decorative 

 elements refined and subdued. An old house which once stood on the grounds was 

 moved to the present site, a house that scarcely covered more than the space now occu- 

 pied by the entrance hall and the library. Its low ceilings have been retained, and thus the 



general scale set ; but the house 



as a whole is an entirely new 



structure, in which the archi- 

 tects completely responded to 



the ideas of the owner, with the 



result that one of the most 



delightful and individual of 



Long Island country places has 



been created — for it is a real 



creation, and more than an 



erection — on the rather fiat 



land which is characteristic of 



Southampton. 



Outwardly the house is a 



frank adaptation of the old 



Southern Colonial house to 



modern requirements. If it 



recalls one model more than 



another, it is perhaps the historic 



lines of Mount Vernon which it 



suggests. But it is a sugges- 

 tion only, and the house has 



been planned and carried out 



without thought of copving, 



and with the single idea of 



making a hospitable place 



where one might live comfort- 

 ably in the country, entertain "THE ORCHARD"— THE PORCH. 



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