HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1913 
161 
The home of Mr. Carleton Macy at Hewlett, Long Island, a section 
that has become noted for the good architecture of its homes 
A stucco house at Long Beach that is representative of the high class 
dwellings being erected there 
has already been started will open up the 
branch to Oyster Bay, then the branch 
from Lynbrook to Babylon, and finally 
that from Floral Park to Northport. So 
that all this section will be within an hour 
of the heart of New York. Let us note 
the characteristics of sections in order to 
show that this great district renders avail¬ 
able a country home to the city man of all 
degrees of cost and kind, from the great 
estate to the suburb proper, and from the 
residential section to broad farm land. 
There are various places within the 
metropolitan district suburban in charac¬ 
ter. Flushing is on the north shore on 
the Sound, a district of well-shaded 
streets. It was once an old, Dutch vil¬ 
lage, and has the look of a settled commu¬ 
nity. On another branch the electric trains 
of the railroad reach Forest Hills, Kew, 
Richmond Hill, Jamaica, and farthest out, 
Garden City, which, however, is only 
eighteen miles away. After what appears 
hardly any time at all, the train from New 
\ ork comes from the tunnel and stops at 
borest Hills, where under the direction 
of the Sage Foundation a model settle¬ 
ment is being erected. The best precedents of European rural 
architecture have been followed, and the latest advances in build¬ 
ing and sanitation and lighting have been adapted. Kew and 
on the newly electrified line 
Richmond Hill also have homes that are 
architecturally beautiful and at generous 
spacing. And even on the edge of Jamai¬ 
ca the homes are placed as in a wide roll¬ 
ing park. Another branch of the railroad 
goes to seashore homes, but at about the 
same distance from New York. Here in 
sight of the sea, but with woodland roads 
and landscaped lawns, some of our best 
country house architecture may be found 
at Hewlett, Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Law¬ 
rence, and Far Rockaway. And on an¬ 
other spur of the same division the road 
goes to Long Beach, where a cottage 
settlement has been built about a great 
hotel facing the sea. These sections men¬ 
tioned have all been built up according to 
the best ideals, and afford country homes 
at a great range in prices. 
Going along the north shore by way of 
the new Port Washington division, one 
enters the district of great estates border¬ 
ing on the Sound. In this district devel¬ 
opment companies have rendered homes 
that are estates to individuals. For the 
corporation is enabled to accomplish just 
what the individual of large means is able 
to do for himself, and in reality the homes here have all the ad¬ 
vantages of landed estates. The most distant on this division 
will be within about thirty minutes of the heart of New York. 
curving driveways and interesting landscaping 
On the Estates of Great Neck there is beauti¬ 
ful woodland as well as water front property 
