AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
Volume VIII 
February, 191 | 
Number 2 
“Filston’ 
The Country Seat of R. R. Colgate, Esq., at Sharon, Connecticut 
}O one who has visited the hills of western 
Connecticut needs to be reminded of their 
charm. They are beautiful enough to 
hold their own with scenery of similar 
S. class anywhere, and they are lovely 
Sao -3@) enough to be always cherished by those 
who live among them, or who seek them 
out as havens of rest and recreation. One may indeed 
wonder why Sharon should have developed into a pros- 
perous village, but one cannot be surprised that Mr. Col- 
gate should have chosen it as a site for his country home. 
Here he is a landed proprietor, with an estate of about 
three hundred acres and occupying a site that is so generally 
beautiful that one has but to look from any window of his 
house to see as much of nature beauty as one may need for 
any day in a lifetime of search for it. 
Here, on the hillside, with the land sloping down below 
him on every side, and then rising up beyond in the distance, 
with hills and hills moving off into a seemingly endless dis- 
tance, he has built a fair white house. Mr. J. R. Crom- 
Victory of Samathrace at the end of the water garden 
