have designed with history and uncommon sense in
mind, knowing when ruffles and flourishes enhance the
scenario, thereby infusing the whole with charm and
dignity. One truly imagines this house splendid in deep
snow, fiery orange leaf, fragrant high summer, in budding
spring.
Absent the Gothic towers and windows which Fenimore
Cooper employed in his essentially Greek Revival
renovation of his ancestral house, Otsego Hall, and
although he harbored a dislike for the republic���s new
Greek Revival architecture, the owners of this house
would have every reason to expect Cooper���s accolades.
Farmlands��� design narrative is as strong and demanding
as are the texts of this first great American novelist. H
Lisa Zeiger
HYLAND
