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hills or low mountains covered with 
vegetation. 
Where so many types of architecture 
are represented many of the individual 
homes are of course possessed of much 
interest and this is particularly true of 
the several examples which embody 
much of the interest of the old country 
homes of England. The wizard of 
wealth which produced order and 
beauty from the chase of wild and 
rugged country has wrought the same 
work in designing and building the indi- 
vidual homes of which Tuxedo Park is 
composed. Some of the larger estates 
patterned after Elizabethan manor 
houses are surrounded by beautiful and 
carefully planned terraces and grounds, 
and furnished with treasures from 
abroad, and the production within a brief 
period of the beauty and dignity, which - 
in other countries and other ages, has 
been the result of centuries of care and cultivation, offer 
a striking instance of the results of the expenditure of money 
thoughtfully directed. 
The wildness and ruggedness of this country is par- 
ticularly well adapted for the building of such a colony 
where each estate occupies considerable ground and where 
the driveways may be made where they seem to belong by 
all the laws of beauty and good taste. It would have been 
very difficult to plan here a suburb of the usual type where 
streets or roadways are arranged upon what might be 
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called the “gridiron” pattern, and where 
small plots must be uniform in size and 
rectangular in shape. Here, with much 
space allotted to each estate, and there 
being no special arrangement of “‘lots,” 
it has been possible to plan with wide 
latitude the residences and such service 
buildings as surround them. The set- 
ting of these homes in a forest where 
they are separated from one another, 
and where they are often come upon 
unexpectedly makes it possible to give 
to each of them the individuality of 
treatment required without making the 
colony the jumble of many types of 
architectural style, which so many sub- 
urban developments unfortunately pre- 
sent. The buildings of each home in 
Tuxedo Park are framed in and sur- 
rounded by the everchanging forest 
which is, of course, the true setting for 
a country abode. 
Placed amid the rugged hills or mountains of Orange 
County, Tuxedo Park offers the charm of the wilderness, 
and yet upon a clear day the skyscrapers of New York are 
dimly visible. The motor quickly speeding over the hard and 
smooth roadways makes short the trip from country to 
town, and the telephone which brings the whole world into 
close communication makes it possible to live in the wild- 
erness, and yet keep in close and intimate touch with the 
great world outside, a world made greater by so fine a tie. 
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