AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
A Long Island 
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Country House 
The Home of Carleton Macy, Esq., Hewlett, New York 
By Robert Leonard Ames 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
g| HERE are few architectural styles better 
suited to eastern landscape requirements 
than the Italian, or adaptations of it, for the 
country house of goodly proportions. 
Whether upon a hillside, as with the villas 
of Campania or of Tuscany, or in the plains, 
as with the villas of Lombardy, there is always an oppor- 
tunity to make the Italian style effective in any setting. In 
fact, is has often been said that domestic Italian architecture, 
a heritage from Roman times, belongs distinctly to country 
living, and that despite the buildings of Italian cities being 
crowded together, that this is one of the reasons Italian 
towns always retain the aspect of much that is rural and 
even rustic, whether it be Rome, Naples, Florence or 
Milan. 
The country estate of Carleton Macy, Esq., at Hewlett, 
Long Island, New York, is adorned with an excellent ex- 
ample of the adaptation of the Italian style to the require- 
ments of American living, as one may discover by a study 
of the house designed for Mr. Macy by Messrs. Albro and 
Lindeberg, architects, New York. The countryside of the 
south shore of Long Island is, for the main part, flat, well- 
wooded here and there, and outlined by bays, lagoons and 
other inlets that provide easy access to the water and attord 
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This view shows the facade fronting the uncompleted lawn, and it presents a remarkably fine example of unusually successful fenestration 
