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Stanford White Buildings Continue to Dazzle east enders By JoAN BAuM
The orchard, property of James Lawrence Breese
cedar shingles themselves, eminently suited to hold up in salt air—were inseparable from their settings. But they were also sensitive to how they fronted on a street, a touch of the urban in the otherwise farmland environment of Southampton. In The Houses of McKim, Mead
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and White, White’s great grandson, Samuel G. White, AIA, writes about White’s design of the 1889 Samuel Longstreth Parrish House, for example, as a “dialogue between house, open space and street that is a paradigm of the simultaneously (Continued on page 64)
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ix, speculates Southampton Historical Society archivist Mary Cummings on the number of Stanford White houses still extant in the Southampton area. These include the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club Clubhouse, arguably, the best known; White Fence, a.k.a. the Samuel Parrish House on First Neck Lane; the William Merritt Chase House in Shinnecock Hills; the Edward Mead house on Hill Street; the James Hampden Robb House, a.k.a. the Dolphins; and the Breese Estate, a.k.a. the Orchard, later called Whitefield, whose exterior was mainly designed by McKim (of McKim, Mead and White), though White did the spectacular Music Room interior. But were there, or are there, more, that might evidence details of the legendary architect? Cummings is not sure, but she does know that two local residences—the J.F Pupke House and White Caps—did not survive. The principals of McKim, Mead and White worked in such close conjunction with one another (if not always in close harmony), and with their clients, fellow club men whom White knew well, that it can be difficult at times to separate out specific White contributions, including revisions, as houses underwent multi-year construction. Although McKim or Mead took the lead on some projects, White absorbed more of the credit because of his fame. White “cottages”—their wide verandas, tall posts and window and door arrangements planned to accommodate cooling breezes, the
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