House and Garden 
had obtained control of 7000 acres, most of 
it on the north side of the Ramapo River, con¬ 
ceived the idea of establishing therein a hunt¬ 
ing and fishing club, with game preserve and 
a house for sportsmen. This plan was being 
executed, when a much broader one took 
shape in his mind. Tuxedo, he determined, 
should become a residence park; its member¬ 
ship should be kept rigidly to a certain social 
standard; its management should be co¬ 
operative and should properly develop the 
extraordinary but latent beauty of the region. 
The spirited way in which Mr. Lorillard 
The club was formally opened June 1, 1886, 
and before that summer passed, several cot¬ 
tages were put up, most of them wooden, and 
very simple compared to the mansions of later 
years. Building and improvement work con¬ 
tinued all through the following winter, and 
since then they have scarcely paused. To¬ 
day there are more than 100 dwellings in 
the enclosed park, and of these, more than 
thirty are occupied throughout the winter, 
most of the others being open from early 
spring to late autumn. I he club member¬ 
ship, aside from landholders, has about 
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devoted his time and money to the scheme 
attracted instant notice. Hundreds of men 
cleared roadways as fast as engineers could 
lay them out, filled swamps with earth and 
rock or built dams for deep lakes. Further, 
they erected a fourteen foot barbed wire fence 
around 5000 acres of the tract. An entrance, 
guarded by a lodge and keep, and a large club 
house, both designed by Bruce Price, and long 
since familiar to architects, were constructed, 
the club house being at the foot of Tuxedo 
Lake, over a mile from the railway station. 
reached the limit of 400, and the place has 
never been more popular than now. 
To carry out his plans, Mr. Lorillard cre¬ 
ated two distinct, though closely related, 
organizations, and of each he became the 
president. To the Tuxedo Park Associa¬ 
tion, in return for all but a nominal amount 
of the capital stock of $1,400,000, Mr. and 
Mrs. Lorillard deeded the entire Tuxedo 
holdings, which included a thin slice of Rock¬ 
land County, and a larger portion of Orange 
County. This corporation then leased a 
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