go AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1911 
ay LIERE are few areas of suburban develop- 
* ment that have been more successfully 
realized than those within the confines of 
Bayside-Flushing, L. I. No finer setting 
for a definite improvement of a great 
tract of land could be found than in this 
beautiful region. ‘The very charm of the 
surrounding country was itself an incentive for the building 
up of one of the most delightful properties. The condi- 
tions and advantages of Bayside, as portrayed herewith, 
are not merely that of a single ideal community, but a 
existent, semi-rural abiding place, which is in close prox- 
imity to our leading American cities. The paramount 
thought of most of the urban dwellers of to-day is to Jive 
in the country, and in settlements where there are good 
sanitary sewer systems 
and water supplies, good 
schools and churches, and 
every appointment that 
makes country life a pleas- 
ure and a comfort. The 
fondness for the country 
has become characteristic 
of the American people, 
and is not a sudden fancy, 
but a well defined growth 
which has slowly devel- 
oped. The congestion of 
our largest cities with the 
necessarily increased 
rentals is one of the rea- 
sons which has produced 
this movement. ) 
One of the prime factors, 
which hagzproved so strong 
an inducement for mi- 
grating from the city to the 
country, is the provision of 
suburban -. properties in 
which are installed all the 
best modern improvements 
and conveniences, such as 
are to be found in the most 
complete city home. The 
illustrations presented in 
this article are representa- 
tive of the best types of 
houses built at Bayside. 
There are some hundred 
houses on the property, 
many of which have been 
erected by the present own- 
ers; those built by the com- 
pany have been constructed to meet the requirements of as- 
sured purchasers. All of the houses are thoroughly 
equipped with shot water, heating apparatus,  sani- 
tary plumbing, electric lighting, electric bells, telephone, 
(FpawiomM 
A Residential Property — 
in the Suburb of New York City 
By Francis Durando Nichols 
Fig. 1—The classic porch at the front of the house 
and every modern convenience, and are constructed of the 
best materials, and in the most thorough manner. The 
residence of Mrs. E. A. Norcross, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and eS 
is, perhaps, one of the most attractive dwellings in the 
group. ‘The exterior of the house is designed with that 
repose which is always so delightful in a house of this 
character. It is a moderate-sized, two and a half story 
building, nearly rectangular in shape, with a latticed porch 
on either side and a large dormer on the back slope of the 
roof, which extends down and forms a protection for the 
piazza built at the rear of the house. The exterior walls 
of the building are covered with rived shingles, which are 
white-washed in order to give them an antique effect. The 
roof is shingled and stained a deep reddish brown color. 
A brick walk, edged with a privet hedge, leads from the 
roadway to the classic 
porch built at the front of 
the house. This porch has 
fluted columns with Ionic 
capitals. A one-panel door, 
copied from _ Douglas 
Manor, with a leaded glass 
window on either side, 
completes the entrance. A 
central-hall extends through 
the house to the rear porch, 
from which broad _ vistas 
of the garden with its box- 
bordered beds can be ob- 
tained. The Colonial 
staircase in the hall is of 
graceful line, and has 
painted balusters and a 
mahogany rail. The trim 
throughout the interior is 
painted a delicate shade of 
ivory white enamel, which 
blends well with the stained 
and polished floors of oak 
and the color schemes of 
the wall decoration. The 
living-room, to the left of 
the entrance, is provided 
with an open fireplace fur- 
nished with a Colonial 
mantel made after one 
in the historic Pepperell 
House in Massachusetts. 
The walls from the bottom 
to the top seem to have the 
resemblance of wood pan- 
eling of the Georgian 
period, but, as a matter of 
fact, they are of smooth plaster with picture mold- 
ing placed on the wall:in such a form as to present the 
effect of paneling. The dining-room, occupying the oppo- 
site side of the house, is also provided. with an open 
