Half Pudding Half Sauce

"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

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Christmas Morning on a Southern Plantation

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Christmas Morning on a Southern Plantation  From the painting by Walter Biggs
Monday, March 2, 2020

"Pelican Farm" Joseph Cornelius Rathborne, Jr., Old Westbury, New York

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Two Southerners build a Long Island country home. Named for the state bird of Louisiana, the Pelican.  TO build a house is easy. A...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

"WHITE CAPS" FRENCH ARCHITECTURE ON FISHERS ISLAND

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"White Caps" the medieval-style seaside castle completed in 1934 by Grant Simmons. Waggishly named "Beauty Rest" in hon...
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