International studio (81.1925)

intSRnAtionAL

THE HOUSE I ROM THE NORTH

• • 11 .T i i THE DOORWAY IN THE WEST WALL . . I

is m all the world no greater sentment. When he came

bore than the man who Tbe rooS is covered with gray asbestos tiling to New York from Cali-

boasts of the amount of _lesemblmg slate_ fornia one of the things of

work he has clone. ^^^j^^B^jjfefe/^^^^^'^^ which he was most sure was

The fact that lie does da£«iilfiBEB|8W that lie did not like the city,

not talk about it is almost v'^^^MlP^^^-ui^St^Ii A-s a p'f,cc where business

as remarkable as Mr. Poor's A ' ~^^^U^SS9^- was done and money earned

house. Information has to "f^",-^^^^^^-^^Wt 110 object'011 to lt>

be pried out of him. Not WfSk "'^" ''^^'^'i^S' A but as a place to live it made

because he is purposely reti- &^f0^^F\ '\ no appeal. Through friends

cent but because the house ••^H be saw the Ramapo Hills,

is only one of the things he HHt!—^ I west of the Hudson, near

wanted to do. That com- IH8iXfiS!&99SB!f Haverstraw. On a back

pleted, he is just as busy at road that twisted along the

other things. His painting side of a ridge a few artists

and pottery are of greater and literary people had

importance to him now than their homes. Most of the

the way he raised his walls land was uncultivated,

or carved his fireplaces. There were a few farms near

There is nothing of the poser the road but back of them

about him. In a commu- and between them the

nity prone to adulate even woods were untouched. The

moderate accomplishment low and intimate hills, the

the attempt to make him a uncultivated beauty of the

hero fell flat against the landscape, the fact that

armor of his common sense. there were only simple

Not without a certain re- I houses in the neighborhood,

ninety-six

may 1925