Literature Relating to Staten Island 



The Austin Homestead^ 



This is an unsigned article, with three excellent illustrations, 

 two of the exterior and one of the interior, of this picturesque 

 Staten Island homestead. The opening words of the article will 

 find a responsive echo in the minds and hearts of all Staten Island- 

 ers who love to recall the time when the entire region, from Van- 

 derbilt Landing to and beyond Fort Wadsworth, was one contin- 

 uous series of charming country homes, of which the Austin place 

 is one of the few that remain. To quote the words : " Here to-day 

 and gone to-morrow is so characteristic of our restless land that 

 it is a relief to the more conservatively inclined to find in Greater 

 New York a house that still defies the sword of the destroying 

 angel, now modernized to the baser use of cutting into allotments 

 the beautiful estates so numerous a generation ago. One of these, 

 which for centuries has defied destruction, is the Austin home- 

 stead on Staten Island, not far to the north of the Quarantine 

 Station, now the residence of Captain and Mrs. Oswald MuUer 

 (nee Austin)." 



The article also includes brief references to those who have 

 owned and occupied the house in succession, and to those who had 

 occasion to make it their temporary home at various times. 



A. H. 



Prize Shooting for Camera- 

 This article and its accompanying illustrations will be recog- 

 nized at once by those of our members who are familiar with Mr. 

 Cleaves' activities in the vicinity of Wolffs' Pond and thereabouts 



' Amer. Society 5' : 24, illnst., September, 1909. 



^Howard H. Cleaves. Collier's Weekly, September 9, 1911, P- 23, six 

 figs, in text. 



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