The
Henry Francis Atherton estate designed by
James O'Connor c. 1919 in
Upper Brookville. Atherton was chairman of the board of Allied Chemical and Dye and secretary of the National Aniline and Chemical Company. In 1937 Atherton's 21 year old son was found shot in the head in his bedroom the day before he was to return to Harvard for his final year of school in an apparent suicide. Click
HERE to see the Atherton estate on google earth and
HERE on bing.
Photos from
Architectural Review, 1920.
15 comments:
Any chance the property to the west is the stables/farm group from the estate?
Re 9:24 i would lean in that direction,
I would concur.
And those seven carbuncles on Bel Air Ct -- are they occupying the former front acreage?
(It would be fun to be able to superimpose pre-War road maps on the current satellite pictures from Google and Bing...)
Ancient -
What do you make of the fact that Carbuncle # 2 seems to have an older roofline and is set in a more densely treed lot?
The area in question was a open field in 1966 -
http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.6E-05&lat=40.8398879540821&lon=-73.5643230000002&year=1966
The house buried in the trees was built in 1994.
Anon --
I'm not sure. I couldn't tell whether it was older or just small. But it looks as if it's been modernized -- at least -- within the not too distant past, don't you think?
Anyone familiar with the neighborhood?
A
Actually, the owners of the house in the woods seem to have some taste. I didn't even notice the other Carbuncles (oh, Ancient, how do I love thee? Let me count the carbuncles...) because I was so startled by the ugliness of the one with the orange tile roof.
Are there no landscape architects practicing on Long Island who know how to do anything but those damned forecourt driveways?
Ada Louise Huxtable has died. She's have known what to say about such things.
HPHS once again makes the decisive post.
HPHS -- Since you seem to have magical powers with maps that I don't begin to understand, please consider my suggestion about the imposition of old maps with original roads.
Zach (and everyone else) --
By way of Obit...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/arts/design/ada-louise-huxtable-architecture-critic-dies-at-91.html?hp&_r=0
Anon
Bel Air Ct & Fairway Ct were subdivided simultaneously with preserved acreage deeded to the village. Not disagreeable at all considering what's typically done.
NSP
Anyone know the fate of the Alida Livingston house further East on Remsens, near Donna drive? Wonderful, manageable, octagon Delahanty that was for sale with no protection?
Since no one's said it outright --
I think this is a lovely house. Very Long Island, and representative of much of what was built elsewhere over the next forty or fifty years. Who knows what's become of the interiors, but a succession of owners have kept something of the grounds intact, and the exterior seems fairly pristine.
Nowadays, it would be unfair to ask anything more.
Re: Alida Livingston's octagon house.
2 adjacent lots totaling 11acres on the market for $3m, unsure of existence of the house, but the listing makes no mention of it.
Sorry, that's 21 acres
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