Monday, August 27, 2012

'The Creeks'

'The Creeks', the Albert Herter estate designed by Grosvenor Atterbury c. 1899 in East Hampton.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'The Creeks' and HERE for a 1916 article on the house from Country Life in America.  Click HERE to see 'The Creeks' on google earth and HERE on bing.



Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1908.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Off-topic- but does anyone know when and who built the Grenville Clark home which is now part of the Clark Botanical Garden on I.U. Willets? Supposedly his wife had much to do with the gardens and that is why he left it to the County (or town).

Kellsboro Jack said...

If you were in the forecourt and facing the primary entry, what is the larger structure to the left? It appears like an indoor tennis court. Ron Perelman bought the 57-acre estate in 1990 for $12.5 million which seems cheap even by the distressed market today.

From the aerial images it appears much of the Atterbury rustic charm seems to have been stripped away over the year.

Anonymous said...

much of the Atterbury rustic charm seems to have been stripped away...

There's very little of the old place left.

Today's riddle: Why is He Who Will Not Be Named known as "a Hobbesian Man"?

a) Because he shares a birthday with Thomas Hobbes.
b) Because he is widely known for his gentility and temperance.
c) Because as a young man he published an acclaimed translation of Thucydides.
d) Because he is "nasty, brutish and short."

The Down East Dilettante said...

I feel, old friend, that we're being led, inexorably, to d)

l'il gay boy said...

Jack,

If memory serves me (and it often does not), the structure to the right of the entry facade was guest quarters & to the left was a carriage house...or perhaps it was vice versa?

Anonymous said...

Off-topic- but does anyone know when and who built the Grenville Clark home which is now part of the Clark Botanical Garden on I.U. Willets? Supposedly his wife had much to do with the gardens and that is why he left it to the County (or town).