REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE SECTION 6 16 PAGES THE NEW YORK HERALD Wants tCOPYItlOHT. J 8 21. BY CHE SUN-HERALD OORPOItATION.] NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1921.

. REVIVING AN OLD HOME WITH THE AID OF A BOSS CARPENTER Second Head of Big Corporation 1 urns Builder for Relaxation.Makes Over Colonial House Without Consult¬ ing Architect, and Presents It to His Daughter as Wedding Gift

oncj > IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH ITS WIDE HEARTH IT3 STURDY RAFTERS tfre. V'OOOWORK *S J\ MELLOWED WITH AGE. » VIEW of THE OLD WELL THE GARDEN SHOWING THE LIBERAL VJSE Of NATIVE FIELD STONE TO CREATE SYMPATHETIC ENVIRONMENT for THE HQUSEj, ^ JIv II A Tt 111 JJT SISSON GILLESPIE. How About a Successor The task of restoring an old Colonial landmark is attended with many diffi¬ For the Old Astor House? cult !es and tho credit for Its accom¬ plishment does not always go to tho professional architect. Sometimes it la the layman who, imbued with a real Ry THE ODD PAR AG IIA PiiUK. love of the work of our early American NEW MADE OVER BY COLONIAL FARMHOUSE. CANAAN»CONN., and more . to the n< cd. A expert once tola < An Is lower Manhattan, busier uildlng raftsmen, brings about the change. o\5 A WEDDING GIFT TO HIS DAUGHTER. MRS. WEBB WEEKS :ho iic land values of this is shown in HARRY B. THAYER crowded than at any other period in Its writer thut believed interesting example far too /ligh in the best downtown sec¬ the remodelling of the old Connecticut to have that much as the atone of the Nutmeg history, ever again tions to permit of such a venture, but known as Wardwell house at Thayer himself is neither an architect In effect, ho has Increased the value stone, native * relic the needed improvement.a business man's <-xcu.«e stand the acid test. -\"ow Canaan Harry B. Thayer, vice- nor a builder, but he has a penchant for of the arrangement tremendously. Ho State. He created a pool and marked that won't by old Its border with them. He the hotel? Thla question daily rises in the If office buildings are t'ood investments president of ono of the country's biggest Colonial houses, doubtless becauso his not only built a stairway from the preserved of downtown business to the new pecond with old well arid a hooded en- minds of thousands under existing conditions why shouldn't corporations, who not only supplied both forbears came from New England, -were first floor floor, provided workers and hat; gone In fact in Massachusetts a midway, but crossed It at right closure of Held tetone, which marks the men and office a hotel. \vh1< h would draw its patronage fie ideas and tho enthusiasm for the settlers the Bay landing unanswered these many years. Undertaking but also "the Colony, and he determined to assume the angles by another stairway froip the end of a wall of masonry, the other trom hundred.-! of thousands oi' bu.?lnes* supervised first floor to the old second floor. end linked with a massive chlm- It Is nearly a decade since the down¬ men and office workers. prove n success.' work of alteration. responsibility of the undertaking and old being hotel accom¬ the out of it himself. The latter lends out from the original ney forming- a part of the new wing. town section had adequate Since the removal of the memorable The old house, which figured in tho get Joy modations. There Is no gainsaying the and "There aro two of build¬ kitchen by a circular entrance, a by no With the soul of an artist, he haa laid Astor House, the Stevens Hou*e Revolution by offering shelter to tho Just ways fact that at no time in the history of from Norwalk when that town a liouw," explained Mr. Thayer, a means unpioture'sque architectural fea¬ stepping stones through the grass wher¬ other hotels of 1* *¦>. r importance, lower refugee* ing1 the was the need for such an im¬ to wo with¬ tras the British under Gen. bit whimsically, in relating his experi¬ ture. ever one's inclinations would naturally city has had ry alone bcslegod by fo re¬ than to-day. Uusiness It in was one of those familiar ence: a contract and by It isn't only In altering the physical lead one to go, that the work of provement greater out this much desired convenience. in Tryon 1775, "by letting a has enormously in recent years oC of the American farm¬ work. You more house for aspects of tlio old house that Mr, modelling has followed well ordered expanded difficult to understand the apathy .-> population has in- to tho unless, house type still to bo seen in various your money on the contract but Thayer's peculiar ability forth, plan, that hotel builders situation, plan, not without created in < of New With its long, more fun work.'' but in providing a Hympathutlc environ¬ lias been modernized, only proportion. like so many other who hav« contem¬ parts England. you have by day's its but it haa In The success of a hotel venture In this few roof and massive chimneyi was for reason he do- ment for Us quaint and p'cturesque losing colonial charm, plated improvemi nts during ti»® last slaying It mainly this a an of commercial activity stems four to the weather it to the latter beauty. He has planned gardens and addition been given personality, beehive years, '.hey are awaiting u;or<» favorablo st^ding square r-lded adopt plan, although them of of Its own. but remain indifferent ttj* rented In Its uncompromising ee- the fact that the very nature of he Job surrounded with vails fluid individuality assured, bulljlers building conditions. voriti the practical Ideals of the early difficult to tell how much work It is true thai in the last decade of it» made it Hous« lost some of settlers and at the same time typified thero was ahead did enter into hla de¬ existence tJv* spirit of the home, which was the liberations. But the plan proved emi¬ its popularity as a hostelry. This may strongest factor In Colonial life. nently satisfactory, and the arrangement be attrlbut'-d to a targe extant to ob¬ Little if any change had been made solete facilities Never mod«rnlzed. the ideal In many ways. For one thing to favorite inn >.f former Presi¬ nor Home Builder visiting lt> the of the house In Its Gates appearance Mr. Thayer found a congenial soul in Its Interior sinca It «m Opens dents and stateamen lacked most of the arrangement hit noao carpenter and together they -built by Amos Comstock for his son comforts found In the up-to-date hos¬ \sorked the matter out to a happy (solu¬ The it on none of Abljah in 1745, so that when Mr. Thayer tion. Every week-end found this busy telry. fact that put acquired the property and set about the modern frills endeared it to certain naaklng alterations It possessed all tho man of affairs in close consultation of Its older patrons, but also militated and charm of hood was pawed on the property, so it in it all the changes he wi.;hed to have with his co-worker, and In time a new against its continued success. The simplicity characteristic ¦uas added the modern im¬ the primitive dwellings of that period. was a simple matter to direct the work made. wing and d'wntown business population probably To its and of alteration from this point. Finally, in order to image the renais¬ provements needed were installed. was scrapped, a ancient in his mind little little a picture of for the bofc-s carpenter and started the tied somewhat in the century and a of hotel men tried to fill the own homo, another landmark by half syndicate which he also remodelled, occupied a re¬ the house as he wanted it to be. To work. since It was built. The structure void in downtown business lift; by (fel¬ markably picturesque site across the visualize It mentally, however, wasn't I imagine there are many men who was 8hored up and tho frame work ting possession of the Park "Row build¬ road from the Wardwcll house, with sufficient, so in order to give an ocular would take the keenest pleasure in boss¬ strengthened. Tho structural timber* ing and converting it into a hotel. At of the first sawmill In the demonstration of what it would look like ing the Job of building a new home or were found to be In excellent condition. that time the Park How building *ai the remains nrd the Xew Canaan Valley, whero the timber when finished he made a plasticine altering an old one, only they haven't ceilings, aft<>r the plaster ha. Ion of It under a Ion* exposed and constitute one of the most term lease. Premature publication of churmlng feature^ of the house to-day. the fact thut negotiations were pondlr.g Som* fine old wood panelling was .or a lease of the property, it was re *'ound in the house, most of which wu.- ported later, brought the negotiations to Late News From Market i< ft intact. Tho dining room was pan¬ an abrupt close Nothing more v as Realty elled on the chimney side and the fin' heard of the proj> ot, uiid ao lato ofllct* oid flanked with fluted, column*. J Kay.sma.il of tho &. II. ST.tfxlOO. at OS Wet; 183d s'.rcet, non a dwtlllng on Washington atr.-et lireplooo workers and many others who would o. Raphael Tho original kitchen, now used as a avail themselvcs of downtown for Genneridi the southeast corner of Andrews avenue. lor O. W. Brooks to Fred raragalls; gladly Company, sold Henry was held at and dwelling at 55 Arlington street for estate lounge, l.au an enormous tlreplace of the lotel accommodations continue to 50 Tho structure $272,000 o d-fashioned with the Hanover at 981 Park avenue, noriiuiast returns an annual rental of $48,000. uf Jat*pcr Osburn to J. II. Mann: dwell¬ sort, brick oven miles out of their way to find a place of intact. Tho room also Is corner of Eighty-third street, llOxlOCx Schwab & Co. sold the five-stor> new- ing at 47 Arllng-ton street for P. J. Bow¬ living richly rest. corner ers & Co. to Mrs. L* Oressman. ..lidowed In tho same fashion. While Possibly with the oteady Improvement Irregular, a nine and one-half story law apartment, 39x70, northeast most of the floor had to of 17oth street and Monroo avenue, to Feist & Feist sold for Colonol .Wallace bo relald, the in building conditions some thought will house. The property brings wood was planed and used In the work a be to a business men's ho¬ apartment Uu^tav Kraf. a Clinton avenue. sain given plot at 202-204 ut renovation. An old settle was is even 1n ebout |S0,000 rent and ffas held at to Samuel for Shor A given tel improvement. It within the N'ewark, Hill; ntiv wings and an ancient chest found realm of htit someone may- It was by Arllng Brooklyn Transactions, a at 698 possibility sGOO.OOO. purchased Packing three family dwelling along with other ancestral relics left bee the need of a business women's ho¬ a one Hanson, an lr.vestor. J. Lacor and Fred R. Abrairu sold Hunterdon street to John Gehrig; behind when the former owner sold the tel. But first let us have a suitable suc» H. T. Wood sold for Michael Kauf¬ tha resldenco of Mrs. Florence L Gon¬ family house at 283 South Seventh street house, and said by authorities to be at c»ssor to the old Astor House. man the Rita Carlton Apartments at zales at 1920 Ditmas avenue to A. Rosen- for Paul Newsome to Samuel Schechner; east 100 years older than the dwelling, 450 Audubon avenue, between 187th and blum. The house has a frontage of 100 ulso leased the upper portion of the four was provided with a cover. v, 't .>tIOOx'j. The property Is feet on Ocean avenue and 130 feet on story building at 62 Golden street to In order to accommodate Mr. Thayer's rented for $52,000 and was held at $300,- LHtmas avenue and contains eleven Lowenburg Company, manufacturers of daughter. Mrs. Webb Weeks, for whom 000. rooms and three baths with a double ladica' and children's clothing. thn houso was Intended, as a wedding 1.200 HOME SITES Juries Pendergast sold through Ot F. garage and chauffeur's apartment. Joseph P. Day and Berry Brothers gilt. It was necessary to build on a new \V. Johanninjj 34 MorninRsido avenue, a Bulkley & Horton Company sold 426 Bold to the Zeller lacquer Manufactur¬ wing to contain guest rooms and ser¬ llvo story double flat, 25x100. Island a three story store vants' quarters. Tho building of an ad¬ Mandulhaum and Coney avenue, ing Company, for the Ooodin Held Com¬ dition WILL BE AUCTIONED Harris & Maurice and at building, for C. H. Van Slyck. new at X. J., was, however, child's play com¬ A'. Ixwlne sold pany. its plant Irvlngton. task of Klslier Irving I. through L. sold the three story consisting of about three and one-half pared with the building a stair¬ Samson 1 Uooni to Morris Victel and Henry Nlelson way from tho old kitchen to the new house at 63 South Klllott place for Har¬ acres and a one story building having ,/osepli .Shatt, operators, the two six thB feet of floor guest room and of Including a service to houses at 438-444 East 120th riet E. Russell to Wm, J. Coblank; about 28,000 square space. from new Park Estate Decides Dispoho fitory Thirteenth a stairway the kitchen to the at and for two family dwelling at 418 The property is served by siding. old room. ftrot't, held $100,000 renting to Michael guest Th^> slope of the roof It" in street for M. Shapiro Espo- A part of the exclusive Fox Meadows ninde this task a of Holdings Long1 about $20,000 annually. Negotiations for three years tho difficult one. i;:t> for a resale. slto, and leased In Scarsdale. which was the home of Mr. pending avenae Thayer, however, solved the prob¬ to too much a summer r» ¦ X. sold for Ellen building at 2191-22] 1 Nostrand former Governor Daniel Tompkins. :r:' the late William O. Park .hern for tho Martin le«sed a floor In 238 has a 125 feet deep N or A v . unit uiutei rui»« our- broker has appointed ug^nt Company tect, acquired strip the oor haw Ueridf-d t<» 'ii -oae of It* lar*e hold¬ street to M. B. Patty. an Fenimore road and A. Kohler of of houses In a district of well graded and practically all other outii 7 roperty and also for 428 West 124th Livingston W. rowed their \vn>- into anothor section the ings erf vacant r> il catato In Long Inl¬ cost Scarsdale and this city has a CITY'S SUBWAY SITES roadways. Here and there above sports. Kjvrt. A theatre to scat 2,000 and to purchased of the city that haa eo far eeonped the ti-c can be :'een the crumbling Pelham Bay Park is the larg^i p! ay- and City. Mr, irk acquired the prop- Is to be erected on strip 180 feet deep. Both buyers will TO BE SOLD AT tops Princeton Dnli l.ooUinc for Site. $250,000 Sheepshead AUCTION attention of tli* horn® builder. L4ko his chimney of some old mansion that, harks ground In the city. It contains 1 740 erty, which comprises about 1.200 va- Ray road east of the Brighton Beach mprove the sites with modern residences <> He had un- the transit mole back to the days when the action was res a'd has a water frontai o? rr ore cunt lot». many >rara a»ro. Tiie Prin'.oton Ciub, which lias occu¬ station. A site of 15,000 aqua re feet has for their own occupanoy. The city, through the Transit Con¬ four foot«*l prototype part of the vast I'cll estate. Even before than nine mlle«. At tho southernlost bound**! f.Tlth in lx>ng Inland City real temporary quarters in the Talo been leased for tho project which Is to William Buderus has secured a long struction Commission, will auction off does mowt of his work where It can't mado tlx- oatato, and iiawed property In pied for the subway molo easily ifp of the park Is the $1,000,000 pi :«y- pur only Club siny tlio Isaac L. Rlc* Found stir n. H'hih be Improfod u ( [>r >J' clod rapid tras. Thirty-ninth street arid J'rjri. avenue as architect. t Co. The total amount involved was acquired for subway easements. The public until h«i breaks through the hs.v« now In the >eiia «lt line*. at the of his subter¬ Ivn, iho trip would amply repaid marvellous playfleM pro» n site for a clubhouse. It contains threo more than $100,000. sule will bo h'ld on April 27 and SS by- Garth's crust end r!i«- amateur or Stofenalonal historian '>f fonstructloti will contain a rolf Supreme Court Juotiro Kranola K ur story dwellings known ad 86 and Robeert F. sold Transit Construction Commis¬ or any on* who takes more t:»an a pasr- course, parade grounds. bow-: ins Pendleton, tr of tho Park Mtate. ss Farley Organisation sioner who, with tho While the men and women In the Mg rs and Truat Co: park avenue and 3!> East Thlrty- William T>. Bioodgood *: Co.. Inc., and for S. B. Elkina a ^n Central ave- Delaney. Sinking Ing In' rest In the architecture oi early cruris, baseball diamonds football «r rt«i- and tha Farm, Loan plot Fund his office buildings and apartments abovo ». !l ..Int'i Street. Thoy front 81 foot lr>n Park K. It Hcndrickson of J. W. Doolittlo iue. White to Wilbur G. Coles. Commission, fired the upset, American country houses. There f,r» fo lro"B. archery He'd*. library, a rets- pany, executor*, decided to Cm Plains, prices on each The him were going through their accus¬ t.me on of the venue and 1«)feet on the street and Company have *old the eighteen room Ttalph P. Harnett has purchased the parrel. properties and found the Lorlllard >r>»>ncer home¬ taurant, a mothers' room, w idinic pn Whltostone avenue. to be sold arc as follows: tomed round of neat, recreation venerable Marshall demand fr>r n>« hou«tnj?. The aaction by Jennings lv>ue? William Gould Broltaw tract at Great transit mole his way out stead, the mansion, for the children, a boathouse «50 Eliza H. McCuilough. Flushing, l>. formerly tho residenoe In Manhattan.The west side of Cen¬ work the dug the Hunter now an Inn. aftf-r mot«r bo *aie will n.urk t >e o,-v»nlr* of 'he uprin* i., Keck, Long Island. The property was tre between of the old Lexington avenue subway mansion, long with dogklnz spare for at*. of Dr. Arthur II. Elliott, chief chemist leld at Thomas street, Canal and Howard which Hunters Island wm named, and cra't and canoes, lot market In Queen*, and ahouM do In lh« llwflllnc WiiTkM. to $100,000. O'Connell of 1176,0(10. the east tube at Forty-second street and Park rowboats. sailing new of the Consolidated Gas Company, Manhosset was the broker. streets, price side of finally the oil Pelmanor House, the bathhouse built for the accommodai>l.r much to stimulate building. M. S. Flood. The property Is diagonally Centre street, between Walker and avenue and worked northward under homestead of John Pell, second Lor i of a The vroptrti Is (dtuu'ed. for the main rtouglas 'h. l.illman ^ Co. resold an- Alfred E. Schermerhorn leased Canal the Harlem River u;> Into the Hunts of 30,000 people. The bathhouse tvlU < the now flushing high school, places streets, price 135,000. I'elham Manor, who h'ld all the land Pflrt- rfli-'na the Aatorla brunch of the fher of the houses purchased by Mrs. opposite for the summer (o section of The Rronx, Where ho cortaln a 100 meter salt water pool ,ur- a a plot 2«0x390, and Includes Southampton Mrs. Tn Brooklyn.North side of Fulton Point thereabouts under a rant frum tho InUrborounh aub-vay ryatem, nnd la a>t- V D. Eltohfield few months ago In comprises Frederick P. Andrew his back on all the best tradl- tounded by a stadium with a seal.in« Eist Slxfy-eiKhth street between Second besides the house «, garage 30x80, Humphreys, rte street, Hudson avenue to Rockwell turned l>uke of \ork. Jac>nt t<> aeveral atatlone on thla I in" Ooppet, Goodhue H. west side of tiers of the mole family and went to capacity of 4,000. t n)' Third avenue*. The latest sale is with accommodations for chauffeur's Livingston, Jr.; place, price >400,000; Nos- mansions of the ropertv la in rectlnna H. Benedict, William A Sullivan, John trsnd avenue. Eastern to work overhesid. His arrival at Pelhnm Other things besile old bear For those who prefer to take their >ut- M*ueh with realdentlal nnd Bast Sixty-eighth street, a three living quarters. The buyer will eventu¬ Parkway witness t;> the fact that the more exclusive < on- ready Improved on the C. Waterbury, Mrs. Isaac V. Brokaw, Union street, price tlOS.fiOO; southwest Hay Park was heralded by a few brtef country door exercise under :ind la hc- f < rv to Kdward N". ally efcct an apartment house In bualneaa bulldln*r, unuaually house, 16.8x100.5, Mrs. Arent Mrs. W. corner of Fulton and St. accounts, which, however, around Pelhnm Bsy pluyed Its part dltlons there nre the Westchester Cc nn- »'i,rktns. site. George a. Sr.; W. Felix street*, newspaper !!oc)> In cefcslbli, bwltin only ft'm fifteen to twen¬ Mopping. £r.; Charles I* 1100,000: west side of ave¬ left the public with a very meagre Idea hlstoiy. A tablet on Movers try Club, the Travis Island Club an d a ftre.'t. sold to a client of Harding, price Flatbush the for Instance bears the brief bard ty minutea from Forty-eecond Houghton Company Unbnrbin Transaction*. Marshall H. Russell, Edwin C. Jameson. nue extension, nine f«et south of De¬ of what the mole actually had accoiu- park, rtjmber of similar organizations by. The truateea and executors have taken T. J Arghis the four story dwelling at legend of the Si"1 pitrlots who, on Oc¬ Pelhnm Hay section Is ne.ir W f.jt- 5f. M. r. H. Wickwlre and John Sloane. ls alb avenue, price $27,efl0; south side of pllshed. Tho Into confederation th« steady urowth In ''i We«,t Seventy-third street, 19x101.2. J. White sold through F\ Craw¬ at foot of Clark street. Columbia Trains hive been running to the brand tober IS, 1776, h»ld Howe's Hriny in chratrr Village, where the shopping fa» caused Archibald Sr. Perry sold for ley Bros, his residence on Woottoti park checi< at the of Pells thus the houafbj rhorta*<* which haa Dwlght, Realty .TnMln«». Heights to Furman street, price S20000. new concrete subway termlne! at Pel- battle Point, elUtJes are good. thousand* of families to "double up" Mr*. Rhodes tho four story dwelling, and Runnymede roads, Essex Fells. Park for threes or four wreka, facilitating Washlritt«n'.« re'reat *'. the heart of the (list rlct N. to C. In tho Bronx.fouth side of East ISSth ha.rn B,i.y Through nnd in many coses to "trlplo up." They 9, st 450 West Twenty-third streot. J., Horace Sylvester, Jr., banker, Bro">ki A Momnnd placed a first mort- between Park avenue nnd and It Is safe to say that the vast ma- Whit* Plains. But history doesn't built Pelham Parkway, whicl1 is of It St. Peter's of on street, Canal «weepe Bay have alao taken Into conaldoratlon the This !.i the first sale of the property in this city. adjoins sage loan $785,000 the seventeen street West, 142,000: southeast cor¬ Jority of 's resident* are houses, as a cynic once ^bsorved, and the most popular drive In the Church, and c6nslsts of a frame and story building at the 'northeaat corner prlco so the enthusiast Is forced to fall back perhaps fact that th* tax exemption ordinance fifty yeonv ner of East lWth otreet and Mott ave¬ still unlmpress.«1 by the fact that the It carries the motorlrl to Pelh am, the erec¬ Tlach stone residence with fourteen rooms nnd of street and Madison on more to city. will in all probability stimulate Morris Maran Emanuel E, Fifty-fifth ave-1 13?,000; north side of East nubway mole haa opened up an Ideal something practical prove New Rochelle. Slnmii ro- aa H. three baths, with about three or four nue. nue, price tint the Pelham Travers ts'and, tion of houaln* buildings tn Queena, sold to a client to Mistnln, 'i-lln llnrlem Trict, sold^ through TtrrntjMtolirth reef, recently sold by and H9th streets, price 122,7W>. to drain r«l*4e M-utora Sfe of th ¦> opinion that the «¦ .'ohn II. Pierce to Thomns lr. Mitchell the N. T. Hcgemftn Com- Pttrnns ' from tiie congested districts of ho fot Uie o .ft'} -..I' I' ei <;u nt purchased by 'ompdoy. Tl-.e Manhattan and Hr. .«." -nr<-§t* lation t'nrp.«ny 11»:-- < i. '¦ 'in ,< \ behalf. 'iuestlon as- to ac- Krj»! Kstatfl Matins'merit r'ovy pany I,a,.or of ili< v. .11 lie sold ..y .wt! Mar. au< Soriei r, >(:, Bi'ookji. two eve a boo and r of of cour.=i. v.t>s ,»v, sc'ij for tl:i\ tin <:i »t t> ;it Fifth avenue, 1 the exchange on a aril Ii is dealing In the obvious to su> ce,«u:)i,.t>', .¦swept j vacant land n nv will a of toe establl»hm«n. u£ tit* subway lots oa tae south sldt» of t46th str eet, th.* e who buy pi jerty to seP nl nmu $0,000. s recently l>y Frederick Brown. 77, The Brnokljn parcels wtll b<* offered that Peihu.ni Park Is part with of advantage of the natural lnor« I'runi Mirkct Mepnris. B Robert and the New York snd yet it 1s a link. Tnen there Is tho matter of recre¬ I7S feM from the *outhen«t ornei taking Carl H. Stiger so!«i In Eaut Ora-ne, Francis Brown. bv Nathaniel Shutes In the Brooklyn Greater city, witl 10 In It* value whioh w ill fi>llt>»t In th» v j V heelock Inc.. the on which needs reiteration when one ational facilities, and In '.his ragpoct the Hr.th street and Lenox avenue A. 1JL Levy i««oid to Kitim Bium., .... aii apartment house and stores en Company. negotiated Kxoharge Montague ur«*i ®a the fact iwt« of . butldla# boom. iATUtsrs, Ui« Jto. j if irtxuant l<»uae, ilxia eteeet tor U. T. W'tUb (a ML a»g ial« of 4 Oust lUlfwmh atrwfc faUttVtac i iflto* «Ol It CM tew w»n etaties laaottoe U anaxoeUad. Without wtobi&c