Tuesday, December 18, 2012

'Wheatly'

The courtyard at 'Wheatly', the E.D. Morgan III estate designed by McKim, Mead & White between 1890-1900 in Old Westbury.  Click HERE for more on 'Wheatly' (be sure to scroll past today's post).  Photo from A Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I never tire of photos of this magical place.

The Down East Dilettante said...

What anonymous said

~swoon~

Anonymous said...

What perfect timing. Said it before: the OLI Wheatly file will cure whatever ails you. The headlines have done me in, I am off to the Wheatley file for some soul communion.

-Flo

Glen said...

Agree! Agree! Agree! Another new and fantastic view of Wheatly goes a long way.

Anonymous said...

Look at the old fashioned lawn-mower off to the right. It must have taken forever to mow the lawns of these estates that way.

The Down East Dilettante said...

Before power mowers, the bigger lawns would have been mown by horses pulling a reel mower. Said horses would have had booties on their feet also

Carol Landry said...

This fountain, along with the chapel and a few out buildings are all that remain of Wheatley. I love driving up the hill to imagine the rest of what it looked like when Wheatley still existed in whole. I am so lucky to live so close to so many of the houses featured on Zach's blog. I guess that is what spurred my passion for these estates.