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Volume X 



No 



vember 



1913 



Number 1 1 



A Pre-Revolutionary House on 



By Harriet Gillespie 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



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HEN a business man of moderate means 

 achieves a suburban home and a hobby at 

 the same time, he is accounted fortunate by 

 his fellows, for only those who have at- 

 tempted it know how difficult the problem is. 

 Air. Frederick J. Williamson, of New York, 



delightful country home here described has 

 First of all, he "discovered" a lovely se- 



owner of the 

 done all of this, 

 eluded haunt on the west bank of the Hudson, known only 

 to a small number of Summer residents and a smaller num- 

 ber of Winter dwellers. Then he proceeded to ride his 



hobby of an old place in which to live and hold treasures. 



As the crow flies, it is but twenty-one miles from the city; 

 by the New York Central to Dobbs' Ferry, thence by Cap- 

 tain Hill's gasoline launch across the Hudson, it is consider- 

 ably less than an hour from office to home. Far from the 

 madding crowd, yet near enough to commute comfortably, 

 he has, in an old pre-Revolutionary house of 1735, set up 

 his Lares and Penates in the shape of a rare and beautiful 

 collection of antique furniture, china and glass. 



It is in the historical little settlement of Sneden's Land- 

 ing, made famous during the War of the Revolution, as 



The old Dre-Revolutionarv Sneden homestead, now owned bv Mr. Frederick J. Williamson 



