Word: laurelton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago he bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...
...there still, alone with two trained nurses. In 1918, anxious to help young artists, he deeded the entire property to the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, endowed it with $1,000,000, appointed a board of trustees, arranged that 50 young men and women artists should come each year to Laurelton Hall to paint, spend the summer...
...Director and mainspring of the Tiffany Foundation is a sharp-eyed, kinetic, gnomelike person named Stanley Lothrop. It is an open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists who go to Laurelton Hall for the summer are personally invited by Director Lothrop. Nearly all of them paint in the modern manner. There is only one restriction. At Laurelton Hall they must paint outdoors, from Nature. Every Saturday Founder Tiffany, dignified in his long grey beard and with an orchid in his buttonhole...