The entry hall is an admixture of formality and an almost
Shaker-like scrubbed simplicity. �� A gentle sweep of
stair features modest white painted banisters. Furniture
is scant; a polished round table at the center of a
splendid limestone floor. ��However Georgian or Federal
the house might be, the
central position of its
great hall hearkens back
to rural manor houses. It
is a house resplendent
in one finessed detail
after another, as poetic
and subtle as the ancient
nearby Hyde Hall (now
open to the public through
a private foundation)
is robustly heavy and
ponderous.
The nearby Cooperstown
Museums of Baseball,
Farming and Art as well as
the famed Glimmerglass
Opera
Festival
and
every country pursuit
imaginable, contribute
to the importance of this house located in the vast
wilderness of New York state. It is a house eminently
suitable for a large family and guests.
Both Fairfax and Sammons and Sally Dinkle Giordano
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