August, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND 
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A Country House 
from an Old Mill 
By Robert H. Van Court 
WHOLE wealth of possibilities lie hidden 
in the remodeling of any old and antiquated 
building. This interest is increased, per- 
haps, when the old structure has completed 
its period of usefulness in the service for 
which it was built and is to be adapted to a 
new and altogether different purpose, and the task becomes 
fascinating when a building not originally intended as a 
dwelling is to be converted into a country home with all 
the interest which skillful designing and careful planning 
can create. All this is true of a problem which has recently 
been worked out not far from New York city. 
Upon the shores of Lake George stood an old mill which 
had been abandoned. Placed in extensive grounds, in the 
midst of beautiful country, and not far from the water of 
which it commanded an inspiring view, and surrounded by 
a forest of old pines, it offered a wonderful opportunity 
for developing the beauty of a large country home from the 
ruin and chaos of an old manufacturing building. The suc- 
cessful result which has been attained is the outcome of 
careful study and sympathetic treatment at the hands of 
Messrs. Hewitt & Bottomley, architects, of New York. 
The old building was of wood upon a heavy foundation of 
stone and brick upon which an even earlier structure had 
been reared, and the old mill wheel was in place at one side 
where a swift running stream, climbing over rocks and be- 
tween boulders, had been dammed. The walls were leaning 
but their builders had used timbers which were strong and 
durable and a general “‘truing up” of vertical proportions 
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