The Garden Magazine, April, 1922 



121 



as Emerson's Journal and Pascal's Pensees convey the unity 

 of the personalities behind them though in themselves miscel- 

 lanies. In architecture, most especially in gardens and their 

 relation to houses, there are often happy results born of original 

 incongruities, as if some divinity had shaped their ends, and 

 the conscious stones had grown to beauty. One often builds 

 better than he knows by a certain flexibility and "waiting on 

 the Lord." 



THE Schieren place, at Great Neck, Long Island, is the out- 

 growth of several persons and tendencies in taste, com- 

 promised to the demands of a location. The property is about 

 two and one half acres, of irregular shape and contour, between 

 the road and Manhasset Bay. As the house (Aymar Embury, 

 II, Architect) was necessarily a large one, and as there was but 

 one site sufficiently level on which to place it (fortunately this 

 portion of the property was close to the road in one corner), the 

 house was placed there, leaving all the water front available for 

 gardens, lawns and so forth, and restricting the service portions 

 of the building and garage to the corner farthest away from the 

 water and nearest the street. 



While perhaps a less formal type of architecture might have 

 been more suitable in this environment, the predilections of the 



owner were for the type of house which is here shown and cer- 

 tain requirements as to view, sun and air caused it to be placed 

 without relation to-the street line. 



The longitudinal axis of the dwelling was selected as the one 

 on which to develop the garden (designed by Miss Ruth Dean, 

 L. A.) because a natural depression and the adjacent property 

 lines and water front suggested a fan-shaped treatment, quite 

 clearly shown in the panorama photograph taken from the 

 piazza. Very little grading was necessary to install this garden. 

 The brick retaining walls were carried along its sides to a tea- 

 house at the left and a bath-house at the right. The centre, 

 opposite the piazza on the main axis, is marked by a sun-dial 

 and a summer-house. The boundary at the semi-circular end 

 of the garden is sufficiently defined by an open pergola, revealing 

 glimpses of the water; and the diagonal axis, leading from the 

 foot of the main stairway to the bath-house at the right, is con- 

 tinued to the pier at the boat landing. 



The materials of the house are brick with marble trim, the 

 columns, cornices, etc., of wood, the roof of slate. It was felt that 

 such formal materials would appear out of place in the garden, 

 and therefore a rough white cement finish was used for the 

 garden house, pergola and connecting walls. The architects 

 feel that the unity of garden and house has been satisfactorily 



COMMANDING BOTH GARDEN AND SEA 



Substantial in character and restrained in line, a house of this type becomes increasingly attractive under the mellowing 

 influence of years and weather. Home of Mrs. G. Arthur Schieren, Great Neck, L. I., designed by Aymar Embury, 11 



