International studio (48.1913)

A Study in Country Architecture


DETAIL OF GROTESQUES, GATE LODGE
AT “DEEPDALE,” GREAT NECK, L. I.

JOHN RUSSELL POPE
ARCHITECT

lean on precedent, or if original, to indulge only
in platitudes.
With such a deplorable state of affairs too
generally prevailing it is interesting to find, in
John Russell Pope, an architect with the strength
of his convictions, and to discuss the qualities
which have been achieved in his individual ren-
dering of a gate-lodge on the estate of Mr. W. K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., on Long Island. While it is true
that the feeling in this house is of a distinctly

Elizabethan English type, it is of importance to
observe the freedom and lack of restraint with
which Mr. Pope has carried it out.
The first glance will indicate that the lodge is
of half-timber construction. This does not mean
that a thin coat of stucco has been applied be-
tween boards, but that the building is actually
half constructed of timber. By reason of the
fact that the modern carpenter does not under-
stand this type of work, Mr. Pope was at some

DETAIL OF GROTESQUES, GATE LODGE JOHN RUSSELL POPE
AT “DEEPDALE,” GREAT NECK, L. I. ARCHITECT


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