International studio (57.1915/1916)

Scenes on Pembroke Park, near Wilmington, N. C.


THE NORTH-EASTERLY VIEW WITH ITS LIVE OAKS

J. STEWART BARNEY, ARCHITECT

that promises well for the inner man. The
large central room opens north-east and south-
west upon a court and a terrace so as to satisfy
the most capricious. Here is a habitation for
the sportsman to shoot, fish, boat, or hunt, as
well as for the dreamer who loves to indulge his
fantastic imaginings for a brief spell, peopling
the grove with hobgoblins, sprites, and other
intangible creations of man’s amusing moments.
A short distance from the southern entrance
to the bungalow upon a square island connected
by bridges is a temple dedicated to the ever-
popular but never-satisfying goddess of Love.
The goddess is sheltered by a six-columned
temple, the outline of which would do credit to
a Greek sculptor, and yet built upon the site with
local material; perhaps we had better say cast
upon the site, for it is concrete made up of shells
and sand from the seashore which glisten in the
sunlight and produce a very engaging and un-
usual texture. Like the mythical legends of
the Greeks, even our prosaic day cherishes the
idea that dryads and wood nymphs haunt the
forest.
It is by means of an irregular drive through
pine groves, under arches of live oaks festooned
with Spanish moss, that the building is reached.
The picturesque nature of the roadway and its
pleasing diversity of level and direction are all
the more agreeably accented when we reach the
bungalow, where we note that with but a slight

change of grading, pier building and hedge
planting a fore-court has been constructed,
acknowledging frankly the line of the walled
boundary of the main court. It is very delightful
to see within this wonderful grove, a pleasing
tribute to the imagination of a scholar, and to
realize that we of the new republic also find
pleasure and, maybe, profit in acknowledging
the romanticism of classic days. The water
garden of this type is the epitome of an Italian
nobleman’s country house, a place of retirement
from excessive heat, a place to entertain, to read,
or to dream.
We humans know but little of the beauty
of the night, when the trees are seen under
the magic of the impenetrable sky, intense, in-
scrutable, and where informal vistas, wondrous,
awe-inspiring colour effects, and mysteries abound.
rjp’HE ART ALLIANCE OF AMERICA
This Society has planned an exhibition
for the close of the year which is attracting con-
siderable interest both in New York and else-
where in America. The idea of the exhibition,
already mentioned in this magazine, is “Art
Associated with the Child.”
The exhibition is being held at the former
Blakeslee Galleries, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-
third Street, and will continue until December 13,
after which it will be shown at other centres.

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