"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I.

PLOT PLAN, SHOWING HOUSE AND FARM BUILDINGS BEFORE ALTERATIONS.

"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 

DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

THE ORIGINAL FARMHOUSE
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

  IN this particular alteration problem — and please note that all alteration problems are both "particular" and "individual!" - there was involved a client with a family accustomed to sumptuous apartment surroundings such as are found in New York in the upper seventies, West Side. Obtaining a country abode for eight months of the year involved, moving into a much smaller apartment in the middle sixties, East Side — and a complicated re-distribution of a large amount of luxurious furniture and fittings between the two places. The incompatibility of this sort of furniture with the uneven floors and the cracked plaster, natural to loosely constructed exterior walls and sagging floors, immediately becomes obvious. It was apparent from the beginning that a thorough reconstruction of the old structure, and the elimination of gilt finish and silk damask covering carved walnut furniture, was imperative. The latter, left natural and re-covered with made-to-order tapestry, became harmoniously possible — once the house itself was tuned up to an appropriately higher pitch.

THE OLD FRONT and SERVICE END
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

ORIGINAL FARMHOUSE PLAN
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

   
   After much expenditure of time and gasoline, the place itself was discovered — at an hour's motor distance from New York.   A couple of hundred feet back from the highway stood a long, homely, gray painted shingled farmhouse of the familiar postgraduate Long Island type, — a combination of a century old original, partially revamped and brought appropriately down to date somewhere in the middle seventies. The inside boasted of no heat except coal stoves, while an old hand pump attached to an antique cistern under the kitchen floor provided the entire outfit of plumbing! All the traditions of the middle seventies were removed, including piazzas, bay windows, front door, scalloped edge black slate roof, and heavy eaves and gable rakes. All the chimneys were rebuilt, the plaster and shingles removed (yes, the studs — some of them — were retained!) and replaced — mixed with new cypress ones, laid ten inches to the weather.  Old floors were taken up, and rebuilt to carry new wide oak plank, with rosewood splines; the new walls were lined with muslin, painted and glazed a warm gray,  for a background to the hangings,— and the owner is so pleased he is going to make considerable further additions in the Spring!

PLOT PLAN, SHOWING HOUSE AND FARM BUILDINGS AFTER ALTERATIONS.(1918)
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 

DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

  
***Landscaping of the property at the time of alterations was attributed to Ferruccio Vitale***

FIRST FLOOR AFTER ALTERATIONS(1918)
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

ENTRANCE APPROACH(1918)
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

ENTRANCE APPROACH(2006) 
"MEADOW FARM", HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIEISSLING, ARCHITECTS

FRONT VIEW
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

FRONT, SHOWING SERVICE END
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

REAR VIEW
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

LIVING ROOM
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

DINING ROOM
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

SUN ROOM

"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 

DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

SECOND FLOOR
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

SECOND FLOOR HALL
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

OWNER'S BEDROOM
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

OWNER'S BEDROOM
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATIONS TO HOUSE FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

    
   The problem of obtaining a consistent farm group at "Meadow Farms", the estate of Mr. E. L. Young, Esq., Glen Cove, L. I., by Davis, McGrath & Kiessling, architects, was an even more interesting puzzle than the alterations to the dwelling. As appears in the two plans showing the estate "before and after," it was largely a puzzle in reassembling the many varied old units — which may be identified by the letters, on both plans. The unusually successful result gave the group that final aspect of harmonious inter-relation both in itself and to the residence, as appears by a study of the plates and detailed plans printed on the next page. In this case the buildings were to meet the miscellaneous every-day needs required to make urban life comfortable for the owner's family, by providing a sufficiency of conveniences, garden produce and fruit, without attempting the larger requirements of a real farm.

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR AND IMMEDIATE GROUNDS
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATION AND ADDITIONS TO STABLE BUILDINGS FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

GENERAL VIEW
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATION AND ADDITIONS TO STABLE BUILDINGS FOR MR.  EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIESSLING, ARCHITECTS

DETAIL OF PORCH AND YARD - STABLE AND COTTAGE(1918)  
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATION AND ADDITIONS TO STABLE BUILDINGS FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIEISSLING, ARCHITECTS

STABLE AND COTTAGE( 2008)
"MEADOW FARM", - EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIEISSLING, ARCHITECTS

SECOND FLOOR PLAN
"MEADOW FARM", ALTERATION AND ADDITIONS TO STABLE BUILDINGS FOR EDWARD L. YOUNG, ESQ., GLEN COVE, L . I. 
DAVIS, McGRATH & KIEISSLING, ARCHITECTS

   Edward Lewis Young was a bank director at First National Bank of Jersey City and the owner of a coal company, E. L. Young Coal Co. His father, Edward F. C. Young, was Jersey City's wealthiest resident, preeminent financial leader and most influential political power broker at the end of the nineteenth century. Click HERE to see "Meadow Farm" at wikimapia. BING. Estate in a 1966 aerial. 

E. BELCHER HYDE, INC., 1927