
A brochure advertising '
Mañana', the
E. Mortimer Barnes estate designed by
Thomas H. Ellett c. 1914 in
Old Brookville. The formal garden was designed by
Annette Hoyt Flanders with specimens provided by
Lewis & Valentine. Barnes was a stockbroker who had been living in a converted farmhouse when he commissioned Ellett to design him his estate. Click
HERE to see '
Mañana' on google earth.



Brochure courtesy of
SPLIA.
6 comments:
Really lovely building, the floor plans, hand-painted wallpapers and lovely grounds!
I hope the current owners have more carefully edited and perhaps, appropriate furnishings, but oh what a charming place. Thank you!
- Robert
I could move in without changing a stick of furniture. This is impressively charming. Lovely house, lovely decoration, delicious wallpapers. Does it still stand? And I agree with Robert: terrific floor plan also. But I love the furnishings as is, especially those delightful upholstered club chairs in the living room, the chintz-covered ones. This house is so up my personal alley in many ways, though the living-room chandeliers are rather dinky.
Ah, yes, I followed the link to see it still stands. Lucky it wasn't demolished! I would love to visit this one.
The decorator seems likely to have been Barnes's first wife, the former Theresa Chalmers (later Mrs F Cecil Baker, died 1970), who founded the decorating firm Thedlow Inc with her sister, Mrs Truman Handy. Theresa wrote an entertaining though fact-fudging memoir called A Decorator's Dizzy Decade, which pulls a veil over her contentious divorce from Barnes. They married in 1910 and divorced in 1931 and had one child, Barbara (Mrs Pierre E Boudelle, Mrs Robert Beverly Hale).
The first married-surname of Barnes's daughter is spelled BOURDELLE, not BOUDELLE.
I grew up in this house from 1972 to 1995. It was a beautiful home and was preserved well but in the 70's was subdivided and left on two acres but still had the barn/gargage and house with a new entrance to a new road. Thank you for posting these photos.
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