Community Life in Tuxedo 
THE TENNIS COURTS AND COURT TENNIS CLUB HOUSE 
shaded by great maple 
trees. A boat house and 
float are not far away. 
The early settlements 
were mainly near the club 
house, and, as the map 
indicates, it is there that 
cottages have arisen most 
thickly. As Tower Hill is 
high, nearly all the houses 
along its sides have views 
of the lake, over the roofs 
of their neighbors. None 
of these prospects is supe¬ 
rior to that from the 
terrace of Mr. Poor’s 
mansion (cottage here 
seems a misnomer). Its 
beauty and sweep are suggested in the 
illustration. The southwestern half of Tux¬ 
edo Lake, along the East Lake Road, is 
bordered by large estates, from which the 
view grows more and more spacious as the 
strip of land between water and hillside 
becomes narrower and higher. About two- 
thirds of the distance toward the small end of 
the lake, in a hollow, is the pumping station. 
The northwest shore, skirted closely by the 
West Lake Drive, is as yet little more than a 
virgin forest, except near the club house end, 
where the high ridge is dotted with a score or 
more residences. 
From the T. Suffern Tailer place, on Sum¬ 
mit Road, northwest of Pond No. 3, now occu¬ 
THE VILLAGE LIBRARY, 
pied by J. Henry Smith, the view in each of 
three directions attracts the eye. Looking 
northeast, Pond No. 3 and Wee Wah are in 
the foreground. At the extreme right, the 
Laurel and Continental roads separate, the 
former gradually ascending the hillside, below 
what appears on the map as The Lookout, 
whence the Ramapo Valley, outside the Park, 
may be traced for miles. Turning to the 
southeast, the observer looks across Pond 
No. 3 to Tower Hill, capped by the Lorillard 
house, with that of H. W. Poor just below and 
to the right. This illustration shows clearly the 
placing of the houses on the several benches 
of the hillside, giving to nearly all a view of 
the lake. Looking a little west of south, from 
Mr. Smith’s place, one 
sees the club house, near 
the shore of the wide end 
of Tuxedo Lake, with the 
boat house about the 
centre of the picture. 
In laying out and im¬ 
proving the Park, Mr. 
Lorillard and his aides 
sought rather to take ad¬ 
vantage of the natural 
beauty of the landscape 
than to turn this wild 
region into a cultivated 
garden. They have left 
even the underbrush and 
thickets, in the sparsely 
peopled portions, and 
they have truly pre- 
NEAR RAILWAY STATION 
