July, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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The country home of General C. W. Raymond at Water Witch, New Jersey 



as the Narrows, guarded on one hand by Long Island and far East, steam tugs are puffing ostentatiously, yachts and 



on the other by the range of dark hills marking Staten sail boats move leisurely on the waters and a fleet of white 



Island, and through the Narrows if the atmosphere be very winged clammers hovers companionably at the mouth of 



clear the outline of some of Manhattan's tallest towers can be the river, awaiting the favorable turn of working conditions. 



distinguished without the aid 

 of a glass. Here one never 

 lacks entertainment for the 

 scene changes constantly, 

 clouds curtain-like lift to re- 

 veal new vistas — some great 

 liner bound for Italy and 

 Greece vanishes in the offing, 

 a coasting vessel steams up 

 slowly with a cargo of South 

 American products, an oil 

 ship ploughs indifferently on 

 its toilsome voyage to the 



The building that crowns 

 the point at Water Witch is 

 the Clubhouse and before it 

 are placed low semi-circular 

 benches of white cement. In 

 front of the benches is a 

 mass of orange, gold and 

 brown in a bed of marigolds 

 which Avith the blue sea be- 

 yond brings to mind Riviera 

 gardens by the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea. The Clubhouse 

 has a very attractive interior 



Floor plans and corner view of the home of General Charles W. Raymond, Water Witch, New Jersey 



