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beautiful and exclusive country colony in America. 
It appears to be the work of ages past for the gray stone 
is covered in places with mosses and lichens, and the vines 
which screen the walls seem to be the result of years of 
growth and training, but Tuxedo Park is new and its plan- 
ning and development from a tract of virgin forest were the 
work of less than one brief year, the 
results of the efforts of an architectural 
genius with unlimited wealth at his com- 
mand. The story of the molding of this 
wonderful place is a history in itself— 
the idea formed by the late Mr. Pierre 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
November, 1912 
inhabit them are members of the Tuxedo Club, all sharing 
in the activities, which, Summer and Winter alike, center 
about the club-house, the lake and the ivy-clad stone church 
which is placed not far from the park gates. Among these 
beautiful country homes stands “‘Sho-chiku-bai” designed and 
built by Messrs. Walker & Gillette, architects, New York, 
and a strikingly successful example of a 
country house planned with direct refer- 
ence to the spot where it is placed. It 
is an architectural axiom that a house 
is most completely satisfying when built 
of some material native to the locality. 
Lorillard assuming definite shape under 
the skilful direction of Mr. Bruce Price 
who guided its laying out, solved the 
problems involved, and designed and 
Obedience to an architectural law is not 
often as literal as in the case under dis- 
cussion, for here, built in the heart of 
the woods, is a home constituted very 
built many of the earlier estates of 
which it is composed. Suburbs are 
planned for the building of houses of al- 
most every description. Many are designed for the smallest 
and simplest of cottages, others for homes of greater extent 
and cost, and the funds of one vast foundation are now being 
applied to the building of tasteful homes for people of mod- 
eratemeans. Uponthe other hand, Tuxedo Park, which may 
be considered a suburb, seems to be planned chiefly for the 
socially and financially prominent, and most of the homes 
built within its gates are of considerable extent and import- 
ance. The road which enters the gateway is broad and smooth 
and leads over the hills and through the dales of this beauti- 
ful spot, and one finds that Tuxedo Park is a settlement of 
country estates grouped together, where the families who 
First floor plan 
largely of the same rough gray stone 
which forms the foundation of the ever- 
lasting hills spread out upon every side. 
As one approaches this beautiful home through the grounds 
which surround the house, it seems to be in a very intimate 
way an integral part of the country setting. Spread out as it 
is over a considerable space and, being but two stories high, 
the house is quaint and rambling and from the long low build- 
ing which forms the main structure an extensive wing extends 
at a right angle and adds very materially to the size and un- 
usual picturesqueness of the house. The first floor walls and 
the chimneys are of the rough gray stone quarried near by 
and laid in somewhat the manner of “cobblestones.” This 
very free and informal treatment is made even more inter- 
esting by the vegetation which in some places still adheres 
The drawing-room 
