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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 J 
Reduced from colored frontispiece by 
George Brehm. 
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Gertrude 
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Reproducing the English Estate on 
a Long Island Development 
H ERETOFORE America has looked 
toward England and the Continent 
for ideas in planning community dwellings, 
laying out small towns and the suggestion 
of English precedent. But no one has 
thought to reproduce here that particular 
phase of English countryside where the 
great estates are. Almost as much of the 
charm of the English landscape depends 
upon these country homes as upon the 
thatched roadside cottages. There is such 
a typical home atmosphere about the old 
places. They appear as permanent as the 
A half-timbered house adjoining Grenwolde, 
Great Neck 
country itself and one loses that sense of 
apprehension that is sometimes found here 
in America when one wonders, How soon 
will this district become changed? 
At Grenwolde this idea of the English 
estate is being worked out in an interesting 
manner. Upon a natural, advantageous 
background it is planned to reproduce the 
landscape of the English estates by build¬ 
ing a superior class of homes of good 
architecture. Best of all American demo¬ 
cratic ideas will make these homes available 
for the man of moderate income. Among 
Much of the property provides such views of 
the Sound as this 
some of the novel ideas in developing the 
suburban community is the desirable one of 
eliminating the bare expanses of concrete 
sidewalks and curbings that intersect one 
another at right angles. In the roads and 
sidewalks all visible concrete will be absent 
and wherever possible hedges will be sub¬ 
stituted for stone and concrete fences. The 
beauty of green edged roadways is ap¬ 
preciated and will be taken advantage of 
where possible. Notwithstanding the look 
of settled age resultant from these plans, 
thev will not sacrifice modern comfort. 
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