"The appropriation for a house should be divided into two equal parts, one-half for the house, the other for the gardens, pathways, court, approach, terrace and the rest of it, or, as it might be termed, one-half for the pudding, the other for the sauce." Architect Thomas Hastings
Interested in all nautical things, Mr. Huntington could not spare time from his business to go to sea as often as he wished, so instead of Mohammed going to the mountains, in this instance the mountains came to Mohammed. Mr.. Huntington designed this unusual ship room for his country home on Long Island.
Only an old “salt,” with years of experience behind him, would realize that the hallway above is not the companionway on some sailing vessel. The braced beams add greatly to the illusion of being aboard ship.
Mr. Huntington is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he gained his knowledge of ships and of the sea. One might easily imagine oneself in the cabin of an old vessel when in this unusual room.
The opposite end of which is shown in this photograph.
"Buckmeadow" residence of Robert Dinsmore Huntington.
The architect, Richard H. Dana, Jr., selected a charming site for the house he should build for himself, and no less charming than the site is the house itself. The floor plans contain some interesting and quite unusual details, which should make this house a truly ideal one for the family who desires to live as comfortably and with as few responsibilities as possible
In planning his ideal house, to be built on two levels, Mr. Dana placed the main rooms on the second floor, for better views and air, and the service rooms on the first floor for convenience, eliminating both attic and cellar. The windows are few but enormous; the garage is conveniently a part of the house; the music room is isolated in the wing over the servants quarters; and the bedrooms are in a separate wing by themselves, to insure privacy and quiet.
Everything that is indigenous to warm climates fits appropriately the Florida landscape, even to Venetian villas bordering on canals, with special entrances for guests arriving via water. This attractive dwelling at Miami Beach is the residence of Henry S. Hubbell, Esq.
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MEETING "THE CANNON BALL" AT SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND
AT THOSE vacation and week-end resorts which year after year attract America’s most socially prominent families, more large Packards are habitually in evidence than any other fine car. This is a striking fact, but a most natural one. For in such families Packard ownership has become as traditional as attendance at certain schools, membership in certain clubs. In fact, more than a thousand of America’s most distinguished families have owned Packards continuously for twenty-five years or longer.
Greystone, the estate of Mr. Samuel Untermyer at Yonkers, New York, includes about 120 acres of gardens of various types, none more impressively beautiful than those shown on here, in which has been reproduced "the glory that was Greece"
In these photos are seen a few of the architectural details imported during the quarter century that it took to create these gardens, as inspiration followed another and as exquisite plant specimens were carefully collected to provide a harmonizing background.
Occupying two different levels, the Greek gardens are shielded from the adjacent thoroughfare by a belt of massive trees and a tall brick wall. The upper area, some three and a half acres in extent, includes a series of formal canals and lily pools, a mosaic-paved temple, fountains, statues, sheared Japanese and dwarf junipers, weeping willows, stretches of velvety turf, borders of brilliant annuals, and interesting exotic plants in tubs and jars. The classic swimming pool with its marble steps and pillared margin, is the dominant feature of the lower level.
ABOVE, another glimpse of the terminus of the upper Greek garden and its terraced approach. BELOW, the vista down the steep wooded path to ward a statue of Diana and, beyond, the Hudson. From the stages of this path are reached a series of half-acre enclosed gardens, each planted to give an all-season effect in a single color. Beyond them, are two rose gardens, a rock garden, vegetable and fruit gardens, and, above all, an eminence built of mighty boulders and surmounted by another small Greek temple.
