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BREEZE 
and Reminder 
A Review of the Winter’s 
Activities — Plans for 
Rebuilding Essex County 
Club. 
NORTH SHORE 
CHANGES 
By Chas. E. Alexander. 
Reprinted (by permission) 
from Boston Transcript 
of May 24, 1913. 
bal COUNTY CLUB members, although deprived 
of their clubhouse, through loss by fire, will not lack 
ample accommodations this season, as the house commit- 
tee has carefully studied their comfort in considering 
present and future plans. For immediate use, a portable 
house will suffice, placed near the former clubhouse and 
over-looking the first tee. It is intended especially for 
ladies’ use and will contain a dining-room of good size 
and a kitchen, so that luncheons and dinners may be serv- 
ed. Piazzas on two sides will afford a shaded resting 
place. Remodelling of the club stable will provdie the 
club members with temprary quarters for lounging, lock- 
ers and a golf workshop, while a room will be set apart 
for ladies and there will be lockers for their needs. The 
accommodations will all be adequate, considering the con- 
ditions which the house committee is compelled to face. 
Plans for a new clubhouse are under consideration 
by the building committee, made up of Arthur Lithgow 
Devens, president of the club; T. Dennie Boardman, 
chairman; William A. Burnham, George Warren and 
George F. Willett. "These plans are in preparation by 
Parker, Thomas & Rice, the Boston architects, who are 
carrying out the committee’s desire for a house of simple 
appearance and plan. 
According to tentative plans, the house will be long 
and low in its general appearance and of old-fashioned, 
red brick construction, with white trimmings, and of 
course as fireproof as such a building may be made, and 
will be suggestive of the old-time houses scattered 
throughout Essex County. It is to be entirely surround- 
ed by broad, covered piazzas and will fit admirably its 
situation and surroundings. It will be two stories high, 
with its central part containing a living-room of big di- 
mensions, 25 by almost 50 feet, and a dining-room 32 by 
46 feet in size. It is proposed to carry these two rooms 
from the floor to the roof so that when dinners, dances or 
other entertainments are given there will be ample space 
for excellent ventilation, which low-ceiled rooms would 
not provide. In the end of the house first reached, as 
one approaches the place from the main entrance to the 
grounds, on School street, the ladies’ rooms will be placed, 
all well planned to make their quarters attractive. 
The further end of the building, nearer the golf 
links, will be the men’s part of the house, and their en- 
tire comfort has been carefully studied. The committee, 
realizing that the former kitchen and service facilities 
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were rather poor and inadequate, have given careful 
thought in co-operation with the architects, to this part 
of the house, and under the new conditions there will be 
the most modern equipment for efficient service for gen- 
eral purposes and special entertaining. . 
The second floor will contain chambers and baths in 
the ladies’ end and in the further end there will be for 
men ample bedroom accommodations, showers and baths. 
While everything will be kept just as simple as possible, 
there will be nothing lacking for the entire comfort of 
club members and ladies of their families. It is probable 
that eventually there will be a separate building for 
athletic purposes, with lockers, work rooms and other 
fittings, to be connected with the clubhouse by a covered 
piazza. 
The plans, as prepared for consideration on the part 
of the committee, are only tentative, as has been said, 
with opportunity to alter them according to such practi- 
cal suggestions as the committee or club members may 
make. It is proposed to hang them up at the club so that 
members may study them before they are fully com- 
pleted. With final determination as to just what will best 
meet the requirements, the committee will take steps to 
bring about the erection of the building. 
[MPROVEMENTS and development of the extensive 
estate of Henry C. Frick, “Eagle Rock,” Hale street, 
Pride’s Crossing, goes on from season to season with 
fine results. Just now the work in hand is the making 
of a large formal garden on the grounds adjoining the 
gardener’s cottage and on the level below the long stable. 
There are several acres of level land capable of develop- 
ment, aside from the large kitchen garden. The entire 
place is sunny and open. Some distance in from the 
ornamental double entrance gates of iron work, swing- 
ing from the heavy rusticated stone columns, the new 
formal garden is being made. There are wide lawns and 
in the central part is a series of pergolas, together with 
a circular basin about 25 feet in diameter, for aquatic 
plants. At the right and left of the central pergolas are 
still other pergolas to break the stretches of lawns and 
flower beds. The basin and also columns of the pergolas 
are of concrete construction, and were made by H. A. 
Doane of Pride’s, to carry out Mr. Frick’s own plans and 
ideas. 
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