House&Garden 
V o 1 . Ill FEBRUARY, 1903 No. 2 
LONG ISLAND COUNTRY PLACES 
Designed by McKun , Mead £s? White 
I.—•“ SHERREWOGUE” AT ST. JAMES 
Text by John A. Gade Photographs by Henry Troth 
O NLY during the last score of years has 
American country life been sufficiently 
developed to leave upon its architecture an 
unartificial stamp. Primitive conditions as 
well as birthright and tradition caused a far 
stronger expression two hundred years ago. 
With the passing of our first close com¬ 
munion with the soil came the earnest fight, 
and the outgrowth of it; a richer community 
now first finds time to revel in the green¬ 
sward, 
“ Ful thikke of gras, ful softe and swete.” 
The country gentleman’s outdoor life, 
his hospitality, freedom and simplicity of 
social habits could not very well have been 
expressed more naturally than they were in 
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THE WALK. TO THE GARDEN 
SHERREWOGUE 
