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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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residenceand its inherent advantages as such, have been promoted,increased and rendered permanent by the very admirablemanner in which it has been developed from this point ofview. It would be a mistake to say that every house inTuxedo Park is of interest or worthy of situation withinsuch splendid natural environment, but the general qualityof taste is very good, and the Park enjoys a well meritedreputation as a delightful site for delightful homes. Andmore merit than this it would be hard to note of any placeof residence. Surely it would be difficult not to build an interestinghouse in a locality so filled with interesting sites as this.The basic idea of the whole place being that of a park, noindividual owner has been called upon to surround his dwell-ing with vast areas of land, to build up great gardens of hisown, to create an individual estate within the greater estateon which he lives; the vast tract is a continuous park and thebeauty of one portion of the space is a part of the
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The Spacious Hall is a Beautiful and Cheerful Room 14 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1906 beauty of the whole. One does not, therefore, look for largeestates in Tuxedo Park, but one looks for—and finds—manyhouses of distinguished merit, for much architectural skilland genius have been lavished on Tuxedo, which, in a cer-tain sense, may be regarded as a museum of full sized modelsof the best work in country houses of the best Americanarchitects for two decades or more. One may be quite certain that when that most individualof American architects, Mr. Wilson Eyre, Jr., of Philadel-phia, was called upon by Mr. Deacon to design his Tuxedohouse for him the creative fancy of the architect foundmuch to inspire him in this beautiful land. But he certainlygained nothing from the most suggestive of his neighbors, themselves. If, perchance, he adds, as he has done timeand time again, a note of carved ornament, it is a bit ofsculpture, charming in itself, a real note in the whole fabric,and

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