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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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a country estate of the first 

 interest and importance 

 which suggests the great 

 Colonial manors of early 

 days in Virginia or Mary- 

 land, whose lords main- 

 tained a life truly baronial. 



Mr. Collier's home at 

 Wickatunk is really a farm 

 upon a large and highly or- 

 ganized scale and the many 

 farm buildings upon the es- 

 tate have been designed to 

 agree, both in architecture 

 and the material of which 

 they are built, with the resi- 

 dence about which they are 

 grouped. These buildings 

 include sheep folds and 

 many picturesque barns for 

 cattle, homes for workers upon the farm and quarters for 

 house servants, and the manner of their arrangement is 

 much like that which existed upon a southern plantation 

 during the eighteenth century when fox hunting and vari- 

 ous other forms of outdoor life were in vogue and where 

 a broad and free hospitality was the order of the day. 



Besides the ordinary adjuncts to a country home such as 

 tennis courts, a ball field and polo grounds, the estate in- 

 cludes two lakes one of which is overgrown with water 

 lilies and the other of which makes possible many forms 



of aquatic sport. Besides 

 all this a casino with a swim« 

 ming pool will soon afford 

 other forms of recreation and 

 even journeys through the 

 air are possible for the han- 

 gars contain several Wright 

 bi-planes. 



The residence which is 

 the centre of this interesting 

 estate is of great size, but 

 of really wonderful sim- 

 plicity and is built of gray 

 shingles with trimmings 

 painted white, and blinds a 

 dark green. Across the 

 main front runs a very 

 broad portico flagged with 

 stone and placed at the 

 from the entrance ground level that fox hunt- 



ers returning from the chase may ride their horses and 

 bring their dogs literally to the threshold of the manor 

 house. Tall and slender wooden columns support the roof 

 of the portico which, being placed at the cornice line, shel- 

 ters the windows of the upper floor. Like many of the 

 great plantation houses of the South, the house is arranged 

 with two fronts and at the opposite side of the house a 

 smaller portico is surrounded by some century-old box 

 bushes which were removed from an older estate upon 

 Long Island. The main building is flanked by two wings 



The spacious entrance-hall makes possible this dignified treatment of the main-stairway 



