A dilapidated wreck of a house that tradition says is 180 
years old, and was used by Captain Kidd for many years, 
has been reclaimed from ruin for a New York bachelor’s 
shooting lodge. Nearly everything but the hand-hewn 
timbers of oak had to be rebuilt, but the general charac¬ 
ter of the old work has been maintained 
Max G. Heidelberg, Architect 
On the first floor the dining¬ 
room has an enormous old 
fireplace with an opening 
ten feet wide 
Before remodeling only one 
room on the second floor 
was habitable; the others 
were flooded by every rain 
1 New hand-riven shingles were put on, and new lattice columns and In the old house the second and third story floor beams were never covered 
flower-boxes were added, the latter painted an emerald green by lath and plaster. Mud brick filled the spaces between studs 
THE REMODELED HOME OF CAPTAIN KIDD, SEA GIRT, N. J. 
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