FLOOR PLANS OF THE RESIDENCE OF MISSES SCOFIELD, TUXEDO PARK, N. Y. Walker & Gillette, Architects.

RESIDENCE OF MRS. PIERRE LORILLARD, TUXEDO, N. Y.
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if possible, than the marked growth of
personal taste on the part of the owners.
Real estate values in New York became
so high that residence in apartments
soon became compulsory to persons of
moderate means and apartment houses
sprung up by hundreds in uptown New
York. The private house, in conse-
quence, became a more individual affair
and being now the perquisite of only the
more wealthy, became the subject of
study and improvement for the trained
architect instead as was formerly its fate

being left to the incompetence of the speculative or contracting builder. With architects in all the cities giving the problem their most careful study, with the perfection of the small self-operative electric elevator and all the new possibilities which its installation opened up, the city house soon became a thing of architectural beauty as well as comfortable utility.

Traveling and the collection of works of art became the more general interest of the house-owner, and it was only nat

FIRST FLOOR PLAN-RESIDENCE OF MRS. PIERRE LORILLARD, TUXEDO, N. Y.
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