William Clay Ford House
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
1959
More Architecture: Country Houses
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Mr & Mrs Clarence Dillon Summer House
Dark Harbor, Isleboro, Maine1921A masterful assembly of a series of cottage-like elements in an offset, interlocking block along the shore. - Featured
Pook's Hill: Mr & Mrs Mott B. Schmidt Country House
Bedford, New York State1926Schmidt's creative watershed, 1926, culminated in the building of his own country house, whimsically named from a children's book by Rudyard Kipling. - Featured
Marienruh: Mrs Serge Obolensky Country House
Rhinebeck, New York State1926Schmidt's Astor patronage produced this fine colonial revival country house for Ava Alice Muriel Astor, Vincent's eccentric sister. - Featured
Mr & Mrs Bernard Peyton Country House
Princeton, New Jersey1931In his country houses, Schmidt often looked directly to English models, and the Peyton house uses this source to good effect. - Featured
C. Douglas Dillon Country House
Far Hills, New Jersey1936Schmidt's third commission for the Dillon family, built in New Jersey "horse country" at Far Hills, is perhaps Schmidt's best residential work of the 1930s. William H. Orr House
Westfield, New Jersey1915A.K. Wampole House
Guilford, Maryland1919Simple in all its lines, the building is beautifully balanced and has the air of being thoroughly settled on the ground.- Recent Addition
Ormsby Mitchell House
Rye, New York State1920One of Mott Schmidt's first major works, the country house was built on the grounds of a 200-acre waterfront property. W.H. Andrews House
Watch Hill, Rhode Island1921H.H. Anderson House
Roslyn, New York State1923Mrs F.C. Havemeyer House
Roslyn, New York State1923John L. Wikie House
New Windsor, New York State1924Anderson A. Fowler House
Peapack, New Jersey1925House of Coral Gables
Miami Riviera, Florida1925Mrs W.W. Lawrence House
Princeton, New Jersey1925G. Richard Davis House
Scarsdale, New York State1926Clarence Dillon House
Far Hills, New Jersey1926Charles D. Hoyt House
Katonah, New York State1926William T. McIntire House
Englewood, New Jersey1927Mrs Guy Cary House
Jericho, New York State1928Frederick Patterson House and Cottage
Montgomery, Ohio1928Albert H. Ely Jr. House
Cold Spring Harbor, New York State1929Rabbit Hill: William S. Lambie House
Briarcliff Manor, New York State1929The quintessential English country house re-imagined and set on 15 acres overlooking the Hudson River.Oliver B. Jennings House
Cold Spring Harbor, New York State1930Bernard Peyton House
Princeton, New Jersey1931- Recent Addition
E. Farrar Bateson House
Cold Spring Harbor, New York State1933 - Recent Addition
Jeremiah Clark House
Old Brookville, New York State1933Designed in 1933 for for industrialist Jeremiah Clark, Sr., the house later passed into the hands of financier Walter McClure who called the estate "Tall Trees". - Recent Addition
Richard W. Woolworth House
Salem Center, New York State1934 Mrs Fred W. Gardner House
Greenwich, Connecticut1936Dr Percy Turnure House
Northport, New York State1936Thomas H. McInnerney House
Greenwich, Connecticut1937Charles S. Robinson House
Cold Spring Harbor, New York State1937Henry J. Whitehouse House
Mount Kisco, New York State1937- Featured
Hudson Pines: Mrs David M. Milton Abby Rockefeller Country House
Pocantico, New York State1938Hudson Pines remains one of Mott Schmidt's finest country houses. Lamington Farms Estates: J.K. Cowperthwaite House
Far Hills, New Jersey1939Joseph N. Carpenter House
Greenwich, Connecticut1940Joseph Laroque House
Bernardsville, New Jersey1940Laurence Rockefeller Guest House
Pocantico, New York State1940Mrs Henry Fletcher House
Greenwich, Connecticut1947- Recent Addition
John M. Lovejoy House
Greenwich, Connecticut1949Designed by Mott Schmidt in 1949 for John M. Lovejoy, chairman of the Seaboard Oil Company, the c Mrs D.M. Schluter House
Princeton, New Jersey1949Mrs H. Mercer Walker House
Princeton, New Jersey1949Mott B. Schmidt House
Katonah, New York State1950The fireplace of Mott Schmidt's last residence incorporates a carved wood relief of his beloved PWilliam G. Gallowhur House
Woodstock, Vermont1951Ralph C. Price House
Greensboro, North Carolina1953- Recent Addition
Edgar M. Bronfman House
Purchase, New York State1955 John J. McCloy House
Stamford, Connecticut1956Donald W. Marshall House
Bedford Hills, New York State1957Murray D. Safanie House
Katonah, New York State1958Sydney Spivak House
Far Hills, New Jersey1958Cruger D.G. Fowler House
Bedford Hills, New York State1959Wynfield: Winton M. Blount House
Montgomery, Alabama1960ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Featured
Hillcrest: Mrs Martha Baird Rockefeller Country House
Pocantico, New York State1962Hillcrest, designed for Martha Baird Rockefeller, now houses the Rockefeller Archives. William Clay Ford Summer House
East Hampton, New York State1963Gerard C. Smith House
Southampton, New York State1964Hugh Babcock House
Katonah, New York State1969Raymond G. Firestone House
Southern Pines, South Carolina1969Clifford L. Fitzgerald House
Greenwich, Connecticut1970