November, 1905 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



295 



Notable American Homes 



By Barr Ferree 



The Summer Home of Murry Guggenheim, Esq., Hollywood, New Jersey 



HE charming country which surrounds the 

 neighborhood of Long Branch has long 

 been a favorite site for the building of sum- 

 mer cottages. The older type is a familiar 

 one, and may briefly be described as a 

 wooden structure having infinite variety in 

 shape and in direction. In other words, a building that 

 sprawled on land and attitudinized toward the sky. Very 

 wonderful and strange many of these older cottages are, 

 quite unlike buildings of any other sort, and exhibiting some 

 of the strangest vagaries to which the art of building in 

 America has given manifestation. 



But a change is passing over this summer architecture by 

 the sea ; perhaps it already has passed and the change be 

 permanent. The stupendous pace set by Newport in this 

 matter could not be without effect, and the time must soon 

 be close at hand when other famous watering places will 

 boast their great palaces, and the sumptuous mansion, which 



is perhaps regarded as typical of the country, become the 

 typical home of the seashore. Moreover, the older houses, 

 with their strange grotesqueness of inherent oddity, were too 

 absurd to find favor in a period more appreciative of archi- 

 tecture, such as we may hope our own to be, and thus the 

 reaction was bound to come, and buildings of a wholly new 

 class come to be typical of the great house of our seashore 

 resorts. 



How far Mr. Murry Guggenheim's beautiful home at 

 Hollywood, N. J., may serve as an example in this respect 

 it is too soon to say, since it was only finished in the spring of 

 the present year. It does not lack neighbors that might 

 have patterned after it, to their own great advantage and 

 that of the entire vicinity. But it would be unfair to extend 

 the comparison further, for no house within sight of it can 

 be compared with it for beauty or for splendor. It is a 

 house that in every way is justly entitled to be called 

 "notable." 



The Terrace Porch 



