BROOK FARM, TUXEDO PARK, NEW YORK 
ESTATE OF RICHARD DELAFIELD, ESQ. 
Donn Barber, Architect 
'T^UXEDO Park as an exclusive residential colony 
or association of the highest class is well 
known, and this aspect of it has been fully treated in 
former issues of House and Garden.* 
On this and the opposite page quite another 
aspect of the place is illustrated in Brook Farm. 
This is, in effect, a model farm comprising about 
thirty acres, which has been designed and laid out 
for Richard Delafield, Esq. It is situated on Brook 
Road (see map in issue referred to) and was formerly 
a swamp or sink hole which received a large part of 
the drainings from the surrounding hills. This 
indicated some such use as Mr. Delafield has found 
for it, and in its altered condition is scarcely recog¬ 
nizable. The swamp was drained, cleared off, filled 
and graded, and made altogether salubrious and 
* See especially House and Garden for August, 1905, where Mr. Lorillard's 
plans were fully explained and illustrated. 
habitable. The sluggish stream which formerly 
meandered through the tract has, by judicious grad¬ 
ing, been rendered more agreeable by planting out 
with shrubs and bushes, and has been transformed 
into a picturesque brook which flows diagonally 
across the place and is enlivened with waterfalls and 
bridges. The buildings which have been erected are 
sufficiently explained by tbe accompanying illustra¬ 
tions. A portion of the place is given over to a 
paddock; a formal garden is laid out in front of the 
greenhouses and there is a large kitchen garden and 
a flower garden for Mr. Delafield’s use. 
The whole aspect of the place is thoroughly in 
harmony with tbe surrounding park, and adds an 
agreeable note to the general landscape composition. 
Mr. Donn Barber of New York designed the scheme 
and the alterations have been carried out under his 
personal supervision. 
THE garden 
