March, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
211 
River line branches 
off, at the junction 
of the two branches 
of a Y, the upper 
one leading to 
Wading River, the 
lower one continu¬ 
ing out through the 
middle of the 
Island to Green- 
port. Near Hicks- 
ville lies old 
The Mochrie home at Waldheim, Flushing. Jericho at the end 
G. S. Appleton, architect of thg j’ ericho p ike> 
the famous auto¬ 
mobile thoroughfare, that is so often a solid line of cars. 
Continuing along the Wading River branch we come to Syos- 
set, Cold Spring 
and Huntington, 
where the charac¬ 
ter of the country 
c h a nges rapidly 
from the level 
and low rolling 
plains to the 
wooded hills and 
quiet valleys that 
slope down to the 
large group of in¬ 
lets and harbors in the vicinity of 
Oyster Bay and Huntington Bay. The 
railroad here passes along the ridge 
some distance back from the Sound, 
and each village on the road lies well 
away from its station down towards 
the water. Huntington is one of the 
oldest towns on the Island, resembling 
very closely many of the old New Eng¬ 
land towns whose wide streets are 
arched by elms. It comprises in real¬ 
ity three necks of land surrounding 
Huntington Bay—West Neck, East 
Neck and Middle Neck. On the sec¬ 
ond of these is the Chateau des Beaux 
Arts, the objective point of many auto¬ 
mobile trips out from Manhattan. 
Returning to the railroad, beyond 
Huntington lie Green Lawn, North- 
port, Kings Park, Smithtown, St. 
James, Stony Brook, Setauket and 
Port Jefferson. Each of these enjoys wonderful natural advan¬ 
tages in the magnificent view across Smithtown Bay and the 
Sound, with the Connecticut shore in the distance. Port Jeffer¬ 
son was a ship- 
Curved driveways and irregular shaped plots are a feature of Great Neck Villa 
Two new houses at Great Neck Villa 
At Garden City, a beautiful inland community 
An interesting type of cement bungalow at Huntington Terrace. J. S. 
Conkling, architect 
Rocky Point, 
Shore ham and 
Wading River. 
The North 
Shore of Long 
Island is at the 
western end al¬ 
most as different 
from the South 
Shore as one na- 
tion is from 
another. Steep wooded highlands 
project out into the Sound and shel¬ 
ter seven great bays. Elmhurst, for¬ 
merly Newtown, lies nearest the west¬ 
ern end, with Corona just beyond— 
only six miles from New York. 
Flushing comes next, fortunate in 
having two stations, one on either 
branch. On the northerly of the two 
lines lies College Point, with an out¬ 
look across Flushing Bay. White- 
stone and Whitestone Landing, where 
the branch ends, lie at the junction of 
the East River and Long Island 
Sound. On the other branch lie Mur¬ 
ray Hill and Broadway, outlying sec¬ 
tions of Flushing where the moderate- 
size type of home has been built in 
great numbers. Beyond lies Little 
(Continued on page 188) 
The new Cafe des Beaux-Arts, at Huntington, 
is the mecca of automobile parties 
building and out¬ 
fitting port at a 
time when yachts 
were unknown. It 
is today one of the 
most popular ports 
for small craft 
along the Sound. 
There is space but 
to mention a few 
of the attractive 
towns beyond — 
Miller’s Place, 
A most attractive bungalow in “The Pines,” Brightwaters—one of 
the three distinct sections of that community 
