The main entrance to the house is through the quadrangle, in which the marble-trimmed arch marks the doorway to the main hall 
Homes That Architects Have Built for Themselves 
THE LONG ISLAND HOME OF MR. THOMAS HASTINGS AT 
by Henry H. Saylor 
WESTBURY 
H ERE is a fact 
that seems not 
to be very widely 
recognized in connec¬ 
tion with building a 
home. It is that the 
most successful home 
as a general rule, is 
the one built as an 
expression of one 
dominating idea. 
When a man says 
something in a clear, 
concise way — mak¬ 
ing a definite state¬ 
ment regarding one 
fact — there is no 
chance of his being 
misunderstood. It is 
only when he tries to 
tell you several 
things at one time 
that none of these 
makes a pronounced 
Photographs by Robert W, Tebbs 
The paneled dining-room is at one side of the terrace front, with a porch at its end. On the 
other side is the living-room symmetrical with it 
impression Upon 
your mind. It is 
precisely the same 
in architecture. If a 
man tries to put to¬ 
gether in a har¬ 
monious whole a 
number of schemes 
that he has ob¬ 
served successfully 
incorporated in as 
many houses be¬ 
longing to other 
people, the result is 
sure to be a disap¬ 
pointing bodge- 
podge. If, on the 
other hand, he does 
as Mr. Thomas 
Hastings did in de¬ 
signing his own 
home, the chances 
of success are all in 
his favor. 
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