THE NEW RESIDENCE OF 
HERMAN B. DURYEA, ESQ. 
at Westbury, Long Island 
Designed by Carr ere & Hastings , Architects 
M R. DURYEA’S new place at Westbury 
is purely an architect’s creation in the 
midst of what was but two years ago an un¬ 
touched and characteristic bit of Long Island 
landscape. 
A clump of wooded knolls was selected 
for the building operations, and a thrifty sec¬ 
ond growth of dogwood, hickories, oaks and 
chestnuts was deliberately cut away, not only 
upon the space to be occupied by the house 
itself, but to form an unbroken vista across 
the garden and continuing on for several miles 
over the low undulating land. Standing in 
the middle of this one can almost recognize 
the distant sea. This outlook through the 
enclosing woods obtained, and the house ad¬ 
justed to it, the immediate surroundings of 
the structure became a question of great im¬ 
portance. Here, however, the advantage of 
a background for any decorative treatment 
of the ground already existed, and there was 
needed only the system of trellises at the end 
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