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Grosvenor Atterbury designed over 15 country homes on Long Island's
North Shore between 1896 and 1917 besides the Queen Anne style house
he designed at Planting Fields for the Byrnes family. Some of the existing
residences Atterbury designed are: )
- Arthur B. Clafin's residence in Southampton
(1896)
- Robert de Forest's residence "Wawapek
Farm" in Cold Spring Harbor (c1896)
- Robert Waller's residence "Vyne Croft" in
Southampton (c1900)
- William H. Woodin residence "Dune
House" in East Hampton (1916)
- Harold H. Weeks' residence "Wereholme" in
Islip (1917)
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An interior view of the
Coe home before the fire of 1918
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Atterbury is perhaps best known for his work on Forest Hills Gardens,
Queens. The philanthropic Russell Sage Foundation funded Atterbury's
experiment at Forest Hills. The project was founded on the Parks Movement's
ideas that social ills in the burgeoning cities could be mollified with
the "wholesome" influence of greenery and open spaces. Frederick
Law Olmsted, Jr., handled the street layout and landscaping, and Robert
de Forest, the President of the Foundation, gave Atterbury much leeway
to demonstrate his theories about low-cost standardized housing built
cheaply from prefabricated concrete.
Atterbury's other major accomplishments include The American Wing of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Russell Sage Foundation Building,
the Arcade and Memorial Hall of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton,
and the Southampton Club.
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