Wednesday, August 22, 2012

'Meadow Farm'

 'Meadow Farm', the Edward Lewis Young estate designed by Davis, McGrath & Keissling c. 1918 in Glen Cove with landscaping by Ferruccio Vitale.  Young was the founder of E.L. Young Coal Co. and a director with the First National Bank of Jersey City.  Click HERE to see 'Meadow Farm' on google earth and HERE on bing.





Photos from Architectural Review, 1918.

6 comments:

HalfPuddingHalfSauce said...

Can anyone ID the unknown property to the west - http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.8665357&lon=-73.6045897&z=16&l=0&m=b&v=8&show=/4904357/Unknown-LIGC

The Down East Dilettante said...

By no means a masterpiece, but nevertheless quiet, comfortable and confident, a house like this rather sits in rebuke to some of its flashier neighbors, doesn't it?

magnus said...

HPHS- I don't know who the original owner was, but it was owned by Oliver Grace, Jr. for many years. It's a rather ham handed Tudor rendered in a somewhat jarring "fresh from the kiln" red brick which doesn't create the happiest marriage with the green of the copper roof.

I know, I know. Everbody's a critic.

As to Meadow Farm: I ditto DED's comments, but add that to me, this is precisely the sort of house that seems to work so well on Long Island's North Shore.

HalfPuddingHalfSauce said...

Magnus - Someone had commented that the architecture matched the Nassau County Club clubhouse.

HalfPuddingHalfSauce said...

Nassau Country Club.

magnus said...

HPHS- it's not unlike the Nassau Clubhouse, but then again, both are rendered in a somewhat generic early 20th century Tudoresque style, so I would guess that it's just coincidental.