'Pidgeon Hill', the estate of Meredith Hare designed by Charles Platt c. 1916 in Huntington. Platt along with Ellen Shipman designed the terraces, driveway and flower gardens. Hare was an attorney who graduated from Yale and Cosmopolitan University Law School. The house was demolished sometime in the early 1960's to make way for an incoming development (not sure why SPLIA and Spinzia say it is extant).
Click below to see 'Pidgeon Hill' intact and still standing in a 1953 aerial shot. Pictures from Architectural Record, 1920.
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very charming house, with a lovely garden façade
'scuse me but you haven't lived in colonial new england i guess. another boring neo-colonial. i'm sure the shipman garden went a long way to rescue it but still.... give me CPH or trumbauer anyday. you want to see a real house - look up the Carhart mansion on the "realestalker" blog.
PACK RATS - TURNER, MAINE
Oh, Pack Rats, my fellow Mainer, I do disagree, pink pants or not. I love the colonial revival adaptations---and this is a great one...new england/old long island forms, but much larger scale.
Love Trumbauer, but have always found CPH awkward.
addendum - i take it this must have set on quite a tract of land as the farm group is a long ways from where google sez the house was. maybe they pulled it down for abortion right behind the mark on google. and, this is another one like a couple of others you've posted recently that say they demolished the house for development but there's no development where the house was. my hint to the developers - leave 'em the heck alone.
PACK RATS - TURNER, MAINE
Yes the house sat on over 100 acres.
the dissolve, swipe and road function function show to this untrained eye lots of development in and around the house site. so it may well have ben taken down for couple of dreary colonials, or some stilted tract homes
why is it that so many of Platt's houses have not survived? They seem to be the absolute epitome of a perfect country house! Maybe because they had too much land most of the time?
A lot of Platt's houses do survive---the Edgar House in Detroit, sublime Gwinn in Cleveland, several of the Cornish houses, a couple in Mt. Kisco, Bois Dore in Newport, the terrific John J. Chapman house at Barrytown....
There are a number of Platt houses still standing on Long Island:
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2009/11/lulworth.html
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2009/10/manor-house.html
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2009/05/windy-hill.html
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2008/05/poplar-hill.html
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.8446742&lon=-73.5088134&z=18&l=0&m=b
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