25 Ocean Avenue
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8 Bay Avenue
56 Park Avenue Hughes Cottage
This house was originally the site of one of the Larchmont Manor Company's 1872 cottages and, from 1887, of Larchmont's first resort hotel, the Mitchell House, and its outbuilings. The Mitchell house burned downdr. Edward Bliss Foote, was so severely damaged that it had to be demolished. Sanborn's insurance maps published from 1893 to 1919 depict a house on the subject site with an open porch on the three sides facing the water and a small porch-like back entry. The next insurance map found by the Larchmont Historical Society, 1934, presents a different structure, having the same footprint as the existing house and closer to the street. The neighboring house in a similar style was built in 1927, so it is believed that 56 Park Avenue was constructed in the 1920s. Edward Edwards owned the property from about 1911 until 1928, when it was sold to Edwin Hughes. Mr. Edwards, a local builder whose family still lives in larchmont, sold off 11 other properties at the same time. A later owner was Peter Kane, Jr., engineer for the Village of Larchmont and a descendant of an old Larchmont family, who purchased the property in 1960 and remained in possession until his death in 1968.The house reflects the influence of H.H. Richardson with the addition of Tudor detail. The use of half-timbering and rustic stone relates to an important tradition in American architecture. The house is at once grand and intimate, its size concealed by its angular construction and profusion of architectural details. The front entry, with its hooded and intricately beamed overhang, adds decorative interest to the facade while providing practical shelter for the entry stairs.The central hall is rustic in the Tudor taste, and the handsome staircase has boldly turned balusters. To the right is the dining room, with dark wainscoting typically Tudor and fashionable from around 1900.
84/88 Park Avenue Sister Houses
This property was purchased in 1899 from William and Alice Murray by Frederick F. Proctor, the famed vaudeville magnate, who was then living in one of the original Manor Company cottages on the present 90 Park Avenue site. Mr. Proctor razed (or perhaps moved) the Murray cottage and replaced it in 1904 with these two houses for his daughters Ellenor and Henrietta.When Ellenor moved into her new home at 88 Park, she had been married for 10 years to Lester J. Riley and had apparently put behind her a budding career as a singer. Her debut as a musicale had been marked by a favorable review in the New York World in 1893. From 1904 on, Ellenor seems to have embarked on a career as a hostess. The Larchmont Times reported on her card parties and teas for friends and neighbors, and she sometimes engaged the Bevan Hotel's three-piece orchestra to accompany lavish musicales for her house guests.The Rileys' only daaughter, Atelka, died in 1920 in the Phillipines at the age of 25 in childbirth, a year after her marriage to Julius Lynch Piland. Mr. Riley died soon after his daughter. The Larchmont Times reported in 1926 that Mrs. Riley had "recently returned from abroad" where she was a guest of the royal family of Romania for more than a week in the royal palace. She also motored in England and spent weeks in a boat on the Nile. Upon Mrs. Riley's death in 1936, the house passed to George Wallen, one of Frederick Proctor's show-business managers, and subsequently to Arthur and Cecilia Coleman (1945), Patrick Haudart (1979), and the present owners (1981). This house illustrates the difficulty of fitting buildings into stylistic categories. The dominant roofline and virtually unbroken shingled sidewalls evoke the Shingle style, but the roof's cross-gambrel shape and slate surface announce the ascendancy of the Colonial Revival. The splayed eaves of the roof overhang the first story, beneath which a simple cornice is supported by shingled corner posts and by Tuscan columns separating the bays of the sun porch. The elliptical window with keystones and delicate geometric sash illustrate a popular Colonial Revival Convention.The house includes a library with original built-in seating and stained glass with a nautical theme. Both houses include other beautiful architectural designs such as sleeping porches, parquet floors, sets of French doors, and porches or sunrooms overlooking Manor Park and the Sound (Lohud).
90 Park Avenue
1 Helena Avenue Gingerbread House
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