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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1913 



This delightfully commodious country home near Manhasset, Long Island, consists of what is practically a group of connected buildings 



A Long Island Farmhouse 



By Edward M. Thurston 



FEW years since the fashionable country eggs from his country estate to pay the cost of much of its 



house was represented by the type exempli- 

 fied in the Newport "Cottage," a type of 

 house elaborate and sumptuous, site some- 

 what limited in extent, built after the man- 

 ner of the French or Italian villa. The 



upkeep. Life upon such estates is naturally very free and 

 informal — democratic and thoroughly American, and pos- 

 sessed of just the atmosphere which one goes into the coun- 

 try to secure. 



Near Manhasset, New York, stands the large country 



grounds of such "cottages" were laid out with befitting house here illustrated, which is notable as showing the 

 formality and their interiors designed and furnished upon a tendency in present day ideas of the country home among 

 scale truly magnificent. The tendency at present seems to people who enter into country living in all of its fullness and 

 be to seek for country house sites less artificial in surround- activity. This house was designed by Messrs. Walker & 

 ings and to seek areas greater in acreage, to build, indeed, Gillette, architects, of New York. 



what is often a farmhouse much amplified and planned with This large estate is being developed upon somewhat 



considerate dignity. The house is very often the center of varied lines and is the country home of a man who, besides 

 what is actually a farm, for almost everyone living in the being intensely interested in country life, finds it necessary to 

 country nowadays becomes interested in animal life, in keep in close touch with wide and important financial inter- 

 poultry or in fruit-raising, and sometimes these "farm" ests. The large residence which is the center of the estate 

 country houses are developed to such an extent that they pay has been planned with this idea in mind, for it really con- 



a certain rate of in- sists of a group of 



terest upon the CZffl connected buildings, 



amount invested in TGF^^p^^^w^sa^^ JBlllililll j'"" jj one designed for liv- 



the home besides pro- flC^ fefi P „ „ 1 ., , : , . , JctP^ f^ 1] ing quarters for the 



viding for the cost of , ^.— t-Mj HtBE^If ; ' ''• ESS ■ ■ -'— F CS "'"' ° m family, another for 



their maintenance. S IgL ..?|l|l'~Hfj'^_ Ju.kL g ^ff r "^^^^^^ x— ^ ^•' — fe '~ ' 1 — ^ fe^SI^ J lH service uses and 

 One gentleman fr'°~*>IL S2 aXfl j ^=-_-j|«»«"«-« H r^ rooms for servants, 



farmer, who is promi- 1 L JH j}:?j ^',|Jr ~-t~°-"4~ "^J^^^^^^~ '~^~ ' ~~ J j i^t.~h^ ft-*-, while another portion 



nent in the financial jpjfih^ip^-i:: -■■:; ;^ ^_^_J[^ip^:T^ ; -;;;iv ■ ; .--^ : ": i -;:| i ; : : :y!i;| i provides the space re- 



and social world, sells | - o^=gr~ _ j q U j re( j f or the library, 



enough poultry and First floor plan of the Long Island country house executive offices and 



