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"This comprehensive guide illustrates the effects of dispersions in
applications, the means necessary to achieve these effects with
optical results, and how to overcome or avoid the difficulties
encounteredemphasizing the dispersions of solid particles in liquid
or solid media."
Edited by SPLIA's former director, Dr. Robert B. MacKay, Gardens of
Eden is an exploration of a distinct type of suburban development
that proliferated across the region before zoning regulations were
developed to manage land use in New York City and its environs.
While the onset of suburbia on Long Island is often believed to be
a post-World War II phenomena, it actually began a half century
earlier when greater affluence, improved railroad service, and new
methods of financing made the dream of country living a greater
reality for a growing urban middle class. Luminaries such as
Grosvenor Atterbury, Charles W. Leavitt Jr., and Frederick Law
Olmsted designed dozens of high-end, carefully conceived
communities on New York's Long Island. Touted as an antidote to the
complexities of urban living, these "residential parks" were
characterized by significant investment in landscaping and
infrastructure and employed concepts introduced by the Garden City
movement in England. Gardens of Eden covers the history and
development of more than twenty of these remarkable communities and
the colorful, at times unscrupulous personalities behind them-like
Plandome, designed "for teachers only," and the Metropolitan
Museum's Munsey Park, where all the streets were named for
artists-with writings from their most knowledgeable historians.
Other featured communities include: Garden City, Forest Hills
Gardens, Long Beach, Great Neck Estates, Brightwaters, Montauk
Beach, Prospect Park South in Brooklyn, and many more. About the
Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities SPLIA is a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to understanding,
celebrating, and preserving Long Island's cultural heritage.
Founded in 1948, SPLIA engages its mission through a variety of
activities that include interpreting historic houses, creating
exhibitions and educational programs, providing preservation
advisory services, and publishing works that explore the history of
architecture and design on Long Island.
The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's
Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the
fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic
Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest
English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to
more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the
timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth
century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is
stunning.
In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary
Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive
inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the
North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their
fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes
less than that) are the most interesting barns, which reveal, among
other things, their functional development, their often haphazard
fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the
landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this
book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for
the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color
photographs.
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