AMERICAN HOME 
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November, 1912 
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The front view of “Upwey, 
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the aspect of old-world domestic architecture 
A Country Home of Distinction 
By Gardner Teall 
Photographs by 
puxsceasg|| TIE city dweller, immured by the formal sur- 
re 4|| roundings of a metropolitan home, whether 
it is a house or an apartment will, if he be 
half-way human, sigh now and then for a bit 
of life in the country, not for the discomforts 
that often enough attend his vacation jaunts 
to out-of-the-way places, but for a bit of land of his own 
where there are trees and flowers and birds, (clean snow in 
Winter, if you like!), to make the house 
he would like to build on it seem like a real 
home, which the memory of his boyhood 
spent amid such surroundings recalls to his 
town-tired mind. 
There used to be a time when the city 
was the city and the country the country, 
when the one sort of life stood for a more 
comfortable sort than the other, and to the 
city dweller the thought of life outside of 
the town seemed fraught only with the 
possibilities of every discomfort the mind 
could conjure up. These were the days 
(and they were not so long ago, either) 
when we had forgotten the good things 
about living in general which our ancestors 
in late Colonial times had known and en- 
joyed and had not yet entered upon the 
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present era of the return to the land. But it has always 
remained with us—this enjoyment of country life, to think, 
that the renaissance of our interest in it is unified and many 
men and women the land over are proving it. It would 
be difficult to withstand the appeal such a spot as ‘““Upwey,”’ 
the country home of Mr. Ernest Elmo Calkins at Elmsford, 
New York, makes instantly to one who is fortunate enough 
to visit it, or who is given the pleasure of seeing it illus- 
trated, even though the most beautiful 
photographs do it scant justice. 
The site of ‘“‘Upwey”’ is particularly at- 
tractive. The house is built in the midst 
of a wooded area on the top of a rocky 
hill, whence one may look out across the 
valley to a picturesque range of hills that 
rise between Elmsford and the Hudson 
River. “Upwey” is not a large house— 
indeed, it contains but seven rooms and the 
bathrooms, but it is complete in its appoint- 
ments to the minutest detail. Essentially a 
house to be lived in and a home to be en- 
joyed, ‘““Upwey”’ is strongly impressed with 
the sense of an individuality which makes 
its completeness the more attractive. 
There are few features of old-world 
countryside architecture so delightful as 
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