The American Architect
Vol. CXV
Wednesday, April 2, 1919
Number 2258
The Scarboro-on-Hudson School
Welles Bosworth, Architect
S
CARBORO-ON-HUDSON enjoys the unique listinction among all the stations in the suburbs of New York of being without shops, salterns or buildings of any kind to indicate a settlement, except those belonging to the station itself.
On alighting from the train one is confronted by a steep bank of goodly trees, and the road winding up a hill suggests nothing but country life remote from town. This road is bordered on the right by a beautiful old estate belonging to one of the most remarkable men of the day; a man whose power of imagination is strongly reinforced with self-reliance and aggressive energy to carry out his mental visions, a selfmade man in the best sense of the word, and one whose abilities and energies have brought into first-hand ac
quaintance the best that the world has produced both in personality and in things.
Frank A. Vanderlip needed to consult no one when it came to the education of his chil
dren. He knew what they ought to be taught and how, in order to prepare them for useful and happy lives. Beginning from the bottom up, he formed a group of the right sort of neighbors, building houses for friends who had children on a near-by tract of land laid out in attractive house lots. This assured
to his children the right kind of playmates to grow up with.
He then remodelled an old studio building into a school. This was soon outgrown, but it had served to illustrate the success of the experiment to such
an extent that Mr.
Vanderlip then decided to build dc novo an ideal school for children.
Situated near the Albany highway, on a sloping piece of ground such that the rear elevation has two stories while the front has only one, the building spreads out in plan like a letter T inverted, as it were L, the vertical part being occupied by a fully equipped theater. Class rooms occupy the wing on the left, a gymnasium and laboratories the right wing, and a library and teachers’ room the second story of the central portion.
The wings are designed with a clerestory treatment over the central corridor letting sunlight into the class rooms on the north side, as well as giving them better ventilation. At the outer end of the left wing there is a kitchen and dining room for those children who come too far to return home for luncheon, and a garage is worked in on the rear of the gymnasium, below the dressing rooms. A workshop equipped with all sorts of carpentry and manual labor appli
STATUE OF MOGLI FOR FRONT OF SCARBORO SCHOOL
RUDULF EVANS, SCULPTOR
Copyright, 1919, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)
Vol. CXV
Wednesday, April 2, 1919
Number 2258
The Scarboro-on-Hudson School
Welles Bosworth, Architect
S
CARBORO-ON-HUDSON enjoys the unique listinction among all the stations in the suburbs of New York of being without shops, salterns or buildings of any kind to indicate a settlement, except those belonging to the station itself.
On alighting from the train one is confronted by a steep bank of goodly trees, and the road winding up a hill suggests nothing but country life remote from town. This road is bordered on the right by a beautiful old estate belonging to one of the most remarkable men of the day; a man whose power of imagination is strongly reinforced with self-reliance and aggressive energy to carry out his mental visions, a selfmade man in the best sense of the word, and one whose abilities and energies have brought into first-hand ac
quaintance the best that the world has produced both in personality and in things.
Frank A. Vanderlip needed to consult no one when it came to the education of his chil
dren. He knew what they ought to be taught and how, in order to prepare them for useful and happy lives. Beginning from the bottom up, he formed a group of the right sort of neighbors, building houses for friends who had children on a near-by tract of land laid out in attractive house lots. This assured
to his children the right kind of playmates to grow up with.
He then remodelled an old studio building into a school. This was soon outgrown, but it had served to illustrate the success of the experiment to such
an extent that Mr.
Vanderlip then decided to build dc novo an ideal school for children.
Situated near the Albany highway, on a sloping piece of ground such that the rear elevation has two stories while the front has only one, the building spreads out in plan like a letter T inverted, as it were L, the vertical part being occupied by a fully equipped theater. Class rooms occupy the wing on the left, a gymnasium and laboratories the right wing, and a library and teachers’ room the second story of the central portion.
The wings are designed with a clerestory treatment over the central corridor letting sunlight into the class rooms on the north side, as well as giving them better ventilation. At the outer end of the left wing there is a kitchen and dining room for those children who come too far to return home for luncheon, and a garage is worked in on the rear of the gymnasium, below the dressing rooms. A workshop equipped with all sorts of carpentry and manual labor appli
STATUE OF MOGLI FOR FRONT OF SCARBORO SCHOOL
RUDULF EVANS, SCULPTOR
Copyright, 1919, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)