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Nr. 98 (April, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Bragdon, Claude: The Rochester Country Club
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THE COUNTRY CLUB OF ROCHESTER, N. Y. MESSRS. BRAGDON & HILLMAN, ARCHITECTS
(P/K?%o &y IV. J?. N*. F.)
T
HE ROCHESTER COUNTRY CLUB.
BY CLAUDE BRAGDON.
TnE Country Club of Rochester is
on the outermost fringe of an old apple
orchard, the approach from the high-road being
through a stone-walled lane, which for a few days
every spring becomes a veritable arbor of white
blossoms. Before it lies unrolled the velvet carpet
of the golf green and the polo held, while beyond
are visible some miles of park-like Genesee country,
cut by the level line of the New York Central Rail-
road, whereon the passing trains, shorn by the
distance of their smoke and dust and clatter, look
for all the world like clever mechanical toys.
In its exterior aspect the building is in harmony
with its surroundings, being long and low and ram-
bling, with a general air of informality happily in
keeping with the spirit of the place. The walls are
of white rough-cast plaster, already toned by the
weather to a soft, warm gray. The woodwork is of
Georgia pine, stained (not painted) apple green.
The window sash are painted white; the shingle
roof is gray.
The fact that the club house is built upon leased
land determined, in a measure, its architectural
character. The problem was to obtain the neces-
sary accommodation in the cheapest and most
straightforward manner, and at the same time
satisfy the esthetic sense of persons accustomed to
delicate ways of living. The construction is as
honest and obvious as that of an old-fashioned
barn., The beams, posts and braces are of solid
wood, and really support; the plaster is left rough,
not made rough, and the fireplaces are of the red
brick of the chimneys, but more artfully employed.
Nothing is mitigated nor concealed. Such beauty
as the interior can lay claim to derives from justness
of proportion, harmonies of stained woodwork and
stenciled decoration, occasional episodes of origi-
nally conceived detail, and a general air of con-
sistency and completeness.
The plan was a natural outgrowth of the needs
of country club life. An assembly hall for men and
women, with a gallery across one end large enough
to accommodate an orchestra on occasions of
especial festivity; on the left, communicating with
THE LOCKER HOUSE. ROCHESTER COUNTRY CLUB
(PPoP IV. PP. .Boar&MaM, PPcPcjp', At. V.)
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THE COUNTRY CLUB OF ROCHESTER, N. Y. MESSRS. BRAGDON & HILLMAN, ARCHITECTS
(P/K?%o &y IV. J?. N*. F.)
T
HE ROCHESTER COUNTRY CLUB.
BY CLAUDE BRAGDON.
TnE Country Club of Rochester is
on the outermost fringe of an old apple
orchard, the approach from the high-road being
through a stone-walled lane, which for a few days
every spring becomes a veritable arbor of white
blossoms. Before it lies unrolled the velvet carpet
of the golf green and the polo held, while beyond
are visible some miles of park-like Genesee country,
cut by the level line of the New York Central Rail-
road, whereon the passing trains, shorn by the
distance of their smoke and dust and clatter, look
for all the world like clever mechanical toys.
In its exterior aspect the building is in harmony
with its surroundings, being long and low and ram-
bling, with a general air of informality happily in
keeping with the spirit of the place. The walls are
of white rough-cast plaster, already toned by the
weather to a soft, warm gray. The woodwork is of
Georgia pine, stained (not painted) apple green.
The window sash are painted white; the shingle
roof is gray.
The fact that the club house is built upon leased
land determined, in a measure, its architectural
character. The problem was to obtain the neces-
sary accommodation in the cheapest and most
straightforward manner, and at the same time
satisfy the esthetic sense of persons accustomed to
delicate ways of living. The construction is as
honest and obvious as that of an old-fashioned
barn., The beams, posts and braces are of solid
wood, and really support; the plaster is left rough,
not made rough, and the fireplaces are of the red
brick of the chimneys, but more artfully employed.
Nothing is mitigated nor concealed. Such beauty
as the interior can lay claim to derives from justness
of proportion, harmonies of stained woodwork and
stenciled decoration, occasional episodes of origi-
nally conceived detail, and a general air of con-
sistency and completeness.
The plan was a natural outgrowth of the needs
of country club life. An assembly hall for men and
women, with a gallery across one end large enough
to accommodate an orchestra on occasions of
especial festivity; on the left, communicating with
THE LOCKER HOUSE. ROCHESTER COUNTRY CLUB
(PPoP IV. PP. .Boar&MaM, PPcPcjp', At. V.)
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