“KILDYSART” 
A SUMMER HOME AT DEAL, N. J. 
Designed by Mr. G. K. Thompson, Architect 
K ILDYSART”, the country premises of 
Mr. Daniel O’Day, of New York, 
is a private park at Deal, New Jersey, with 
a summer home which, in completeness and 
extent, surpasses any other on the Jersey 
coast. The work was begun last year on 
30 acres of land, triangular in shape and 
bounded by Deal Lake, the Deal Golf Club 
links and the Long Branch Railroad prop¬ 
erty. The property was developed and the 
house designed by Mr. G. K. Thompson, 
Architect, of New York. 
The house, the stable, the hot-house, the 
boat-houses, the summer-houses, the log- 
cabin and rustic shelters, have already been 
built, and plans have been prepared for a 
gate lodge, a gardener’s cottage and exten¬ 
sive green-houses. These buildings are at 
one end of the property and are approached 
by the main drive entering near the rad- 
road bridge with a service drive in the rear 
connected to the main drive by the stable 
road. The house is set on a double terrace, 
and brick and gravel walks lead in all direc- , 
tions through the gardens and lawns to the 
several buildings 
and wooded parts of 
the grounds. 
A high brick wall, capped with terra¬ 
cotta, encloses the two sides of the property 
not bounded by Deal Lake with low poplars 
just behind. Throughout the grounds, touch¬ 
ing all important points, is a bridle path and 
work road more than i| miles long running 
through an avenue of regularly planted 
maple and oak trees. Near the green-houses 
and graperies are located large vegetable 
gardens and an orchard. 
An old ravine near the centre of the prop¬ 
erty was levelled and terraced and is now 
the principal feature of the ground plan, 
forming the sunken gardens which extend 
in an L-shaped plan from the green-houses, 
and are about 50 feet wide and 800 feet long, 
stepped up by a series of levels to the Aquatic 
Gardens, which form a basin 
at the lake. This is what is 
known as the lake entrance 
PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR 
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