March, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



85 



Notable 

 American 



H 



omes 



Barr Ferree 



The 

 House of 



R. L. 



Burton, Esq. 



Cedarhurst 

 Long Island 



ARGb' estates are quite the exception at 

 Cedarhurst, estates whose area is counted 

 acres, and IVlr. Burton's property of 



in 



about thirty-three acres is, therefore, quite 

 unusual in extent, as it is unusual in the 

 beauty of its development. This is exten- 

 sive enough to give a tine setting to the spa- 

 cious house, and has been beautifully laid out with driveways, 

 fine lawns, trees, shrubbery, together with a hedge-enclosed 

 perennial garden of considerable extent, a fountain and old 

 Japanese monuments. The house is so situated that the 

 larger part of the ornamental grounds face the entrance 

 front, the opposite side of the house overlooking a superb 

 lawn which reaches almost directly to the water. 



The house is a great triple building with a frontage of 

 generous length. It is shingled throughout with 36 x 12 



Roper split cedar shingles, laid three to the weather; the 

 trimmings are painted white; the chimneys of the outer 

 walls are exposed from the ground and are built of gray 

 brick. Much of the exterior, especially on the entrance front, 

 is covered with thickly growing ampelopsis and English ivy. 

 In plan it consists of a large central building flanked with 

 wings which are connected with the main part by connecting 

 passages. The central part is slightly higher than the other 

 portions, and it alone has dormer windows in the roof story. 

 All the roofs are sloping and form an integral part of the 

 silhouette, but the wing walls are slightly lower than the 

 other parts; their cornices are without the broad plain frieze 

 which surmounts the wall of the main structure, and the win- 

 dows are somewhat different in dimensions. The window 

 scheme, which forms the chief architectural element of all the 

 fronts, is sufficiently \-arIed in the different wings to give 



The House is a Great Triple Building with a Frontage of Generous Proportions 



