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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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New York, and your longed-for mountain 
or hilltop home must wait until such time 
as you are independently wealthy. I can 
show you that your ideal landscape lies 
just beyond the city's doorsill, either in 
New Jersey, in Westchester County, New 
York, or along either bank of the Hudson. 
Take Westchester, for instance. The 
lower part of the county is divided almost 
exactly in half by the Bronx River, which 
runs past Mount Vernon, Bronxville, 
Scarsdale and White Plains. On either 
side of this river there are high hills, of¬ 
fering most attractive building sites. Prob¬ 
ably Bronxville and Scarsdale represent 
the highest type of small acreage or large 
plot developments to be found anywhere in 
the suburban section. 
At Bronxville, we find Lawrence Park, 
which was put on the market several years 
ago, and has experienced a steady growth 
because of the high class of people who have made it their 
residence. A large number of New Yorkers make the Hotel 
Gramatan here their summer home. The surroundings of the 
Bronxville station are particularly at¬ 
tractive, in as much as nearly all of 
the buildings have been erected under 
the supervision of the same interests 
that promoted Lawrence Park. The 
houses are all of good architecture 
and evidence a distinctiveness and 
good taste. There are other attractive 
developments through the surround¬ 
ing country which are experiencing 
an excellent and healthy growth. Val¬ 
uations range from $400 upward in 
the smaller developments, for lots 
25 x 100, while acreage will average 
from $2,500 to $5,000. Acreage in the 
more desirable section will bring $10,- 
000, depending largely upon the natu¬ 
ral advantages and distance from the 
station, and where all of the public 
utilities have been installed. One- 
quarter acre plots in “Lawrence Park 
West” sell for $4,000. 
At Scarsdale the station is sur¬ 
rounded by a park of several acres, 
which was donated by one of the 
local real estate development companies, 
and is maintained as a park by them. 
There is no business community at 
Scarsdale, all household necessities being 
supplied from surrounding towns by de¬ 
livery wagons. 
Between Scarsdale and Bronxville 
there are several developments of the less 
expensive type, where lots may be 
bought from $350 to $500, or $600 apiece. 
Acreage in Scarsdale and the surround¬ 
ing country will average from $2,000 to 
$5,000, depending upon its location and 
distance from transportation facilities; 
houses from $7,000 to $20,000. 
White Plains, nearby, a particularly 
thrifty village, and in fact, the largest vil= 
lage in the State of New York, is built up 
almost entirely of separate frame houses, 
and in the newer sections they are of ex¬ 
tremely attractive architecture. White 
Plains is the county seat and the business centre of Westchester 
County and has many features of great interest. 
Nearly three-quarters of Westchester County lies north of 
White Plains, and with the excep¬ 
tion of the villages along the Hud¬ 
son River there are very few large 
communities. At Pleasantville, Mt. 
Ivisco and Katonah, on the Harlem 
Division, we find three extremely at¬ 
tractive and thriving villages, and 
surrounding these, for many miles, 
there are a large number of beauti¬ 
ful estates and farms owned by 
New York City business men, who 
are daily commuters. Of less 
mountainous characteristics is the 
section along the Hudson. The land 
is hilly, however, and much of it is 
high above the river. From Yonk¬ 
ers to Peekskill, the eastern bank 
of the Hudson River runs nearly 
north and south, and the country is 
of almost the same character 
throughout its distance. 
Yonkers is a large manufacturing 
centre, having a population of some 
80,000 people. In the outskirts of 
the city there are some very high- 
From the mountain top at Oakland, N. J. 
This suburbanite overlooks a whole coun¬ 
tryside 
A typical mountain home among the cedars for which 
Caldwell, N. J., is famous 
A stucco house on Park Street, Montclair, showing a strong 
English inspiration 
The broad lawns at Essex Falls make a fit setting for such homes 
as these 
