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LlA oo-o 4? v'2. THE AFT!!;RGLOW 1 Randolph 7444 r===Sunset Hill Club ===- orchard Lake, Michigan I of the idea in fact-the than a year-since the inception OR more A million people may == Lake has been a delightful rendezvous =:;:::::::: Hill Club on Orchard see your advertisement. =:=:::::: FSunset city. ;;:::::: who wanted to escape town and If you use the right � for people Engravings, a million §§§ house on Orchard Lake, the club is in a �§:; Situated in a charming old minds will instantly �: sports. There is skating and ice grasp your thought I ;::s::· perfect location for summer or winter � nt of a roaring log fire after � in winter, with tea or supper in fro EVERTON boating and boating. There are in summer there is always good bathing ENGRAVING 1� · wards; x t cuisine. F Bloomfield's year-round homes, _few possess the sum- mmodations the year round and an e cellen COMPANY � Q mertime advantages of a lakeside location. also hotel c;1.cco The beautifully wooded residence community on the Second FloorKerr Building � shores of Wing Lake lies just beyond Oakland Hills Coun Fort Street East at Beaubien try Club,·on West Maple Road. now open � limited number of memberships Phone Cherry 2821 � There are a WORMER & MOORE 2231 Park Avenue Ran. 4886 BIRMINGHAM OFFICE: 520 S. Woodward Ave, Phone Bir. 930 • Wing Lake For further particulars apply to the Club Manager Shores tlndWin9 .(ilhe estates 519fi6 ERGLO W TH]!; A F'l' Januar y, 1926 2 VOL. II No. I Contents for January 1926 The Conti 11,mtal Divide frmn an oil paintfo.g Ii)! G11y Wiggins, A.N.A. 4 \Vest Wind l'arms by Marion Holden Margery Beaudette, 5 a bronze .bas-1·elief portrait hy Mrs. E. l'alnie1· Bradfield Old English Oak 7 by Mn. Willa1·d 'J'. Barbom· 8 I ne;idental. Books, photographs by 1'ho111.as Ellison 10 'l'hcse Chauning Cot:rages by Chm les Crombie Sodecy 11 by Marj01·ie Ice AvC/'y 13 Yachting on Lake St. Clair Books lti, 17 by Ho·u·arcl Weeks JS Ponliac Clu.b, y Chippcm, Cc,1111(- , photograph The Amateur (iqrdcner )9 by Genii·ie-i·e Gillctle Your 20 Dog by H. F. Ll"igltton, V./11.JJ. 25 Oflie;er, or Oai,lann County 'fhisBusiness of Choosing 'N.eigh bors,, 30 e vary. Their "local color " exclnsiveness for all time-th se factors N ighborhoods � . _ changes witu.• tiie pa.,-si·ng· years · But you have inevitably appealed to families of need run no risk that the home you b u1·1c1 culture and refinement. "' e Village i l ever have no" in Bloomfi ld w l While offering these large b m'Id' mg s't1 es undesirnble neig-hbors at prices terms s and unu ually low for Photograph Courtesy . of Judge Glenn e mhes property of this exceptional Black Creek C. Gillespie Naturallv the bett r sort of fa� nature, Judson in ChiJ)pewa County, Michigan. have been .. ;t.tracted to Bloomfield Village. Bradway has jea1'ously guarded Bloomfield e c Village Its location in the h art of t�e ountry against the encroachme.nt of an e undes club district, at Cranbrook a_nd W st Maple irable element. To appreciate what Roads· its naturally attractive appeara�ce, this has meant, you have only to se� the with �vinding· gravel drives and luxunant directory of owners of Bloomfield Village trees; its rig·id restrictions that assure an properties. HE AFTERGLOW is published on Company, Inc., the first of every month at An Il!ustrated T of which Theodore H. Millington Algonac, Michigan, by The Folder Mailed Upon Request President and Secretary. is President and 1'reasnrer; Afte1·glow Publishing Catherine Myers Herbert Editorial and Vice executiw o.ffe.ces, .916 Dim.e Bank Elinor Millingto-n, Art 81,ilding, Detroit. 1'elc71honc, J,;aitor; t1ai"ry M. Shaw, Aave'ltfaing Ca<lilla.c 8826. Marion Article�. Manager; Frederick Holden, Editor; stories and photogmphs vertaining W. Raeder, Business Manager. Judson postage for return of to any phase of co1mt·ry life Br4dW:� material arom,cl � 'if ·iina1,ailable. Detroit 533 MAJESTIC BLDG. arc solicited. Please send D Subscription, $2.00 PHONE MAIN 0045 •DETROIT&'- BIRMINGHAM•PHONE 38 a year; Single copies 25 cents. 1 t Ors Addre�s 'Dea all co1t1.11mnications to ESTABLISHED 1902 The Afterglow Publishing Cmnvany. Application for entry as second-class m.atta is pending at the Posto:Dice. at Algonac, Michigan. Hl2(i THE AFTERGLOW Janua1·y, 4 .Jan u>.H"J', 1926 THE AFTERGLOW 5 A11 olcl 7n-i'llt S/lf)u:i11g Lord's Lake ('IIOW Jia11rnu11-cl's Lake), 01·!"/wrcl Lcikc rc11cl r111tl 1Vl's1 1\'ii,c/ Fal'l11.s 1rhen it ·u·as the ·1·esicle11cp· of Ji. W. Lore/, .Es11. West Wind Farms A Gracious House That Has Sheltered a Series of Happy and Prosperous Generations GRACIOUS house is almost always an old house. Esq., and is now the home of Mrs. E. A. Skae and her A Ve:ry often i,t is a house that has bEen left pracli daughter$ and son. cally unaltered, for a generation, for age, some people Old fashioned ideals of simple dignity and hospital think, is an asset to any building and a house that was ity have gone into "the planning and construction of this Courtesy, Gordon Galleries built to stand and that has sheltered a series of happy house. From the central hall open numerous rooms, and prosperous generations invariably takes on an air larg·e and small; the formal reception room, the living that it is impossible to duplicate by any modern mellow room, the library, the morning room and den as well as quick method. the iong and stately dining room with windows that Such a house is the old brick mansion on West Wind open onto gardens and lake. Farms, on (J-rchard Lake roarl 11bout three miles out of The man who built the house must have been pretty �ontiac, which was built in the ·so's by Henry W. Lord, much of a pioneer in Michig·an in elegant country liv- (Right) 'J'he ro111y· 1.cls THE CON._TIN..EN..TAL DIVIDE c1.1·1' fu/.l of 1,oble olcl trees. By Guy Wiggins, A.NA. (L<'}t) The 1•11/n111c1· d1·ive ancl ·1101·le-c o chere as 'it looks to c/ay. / January, 1926 6 THE AFTERGLOW ing. The old picture, taken in the '60's, dis January, 1926 THE AF'fERGLOW plays the fact that Mr. Lord had settled in typi 7 cal pioneer farming country, and the barns sug gest that he maintained a farm as well as a country residence. Getting to town then was not a simple matter of ordering the car-it is nice to think of the team of spanking bays that was • probably "brought 'round" when the master or mistress wanted to go to Pontiac or Piety Hill. The fact that Mr. Lord was eight years United States consul to Manchester, England .. may have suggested the country estate idea t� him in stronger and more attractive terms than he would have found in this part of America at that �ime. !-fe was a s:-holarly 1'.1an, so they say, and tilled his house with beautiful things-fine books, rare porcelains and engTavings, furniture Tlte Green Roo1n. and rugs. He was noted for his hospitality and hi.s home sheltered many a distinguished guest. After Mr. Lord's death the house passerl through the hands of several owners and was finally purc.hased in 1885 by MT. George H. Hammond, the father of Mr. E. P. Hammond and Mrs. Skae. It was the summer home of the Hammond family for many years, but for the past twenrt:y years the house and farm have been the property of Mrs. Skae who has chamged and added to the house and de veloped the farm which now includes 400 acres, reaching across Square Lake road to Long Lake. The trees have grown with the years to noble proportions-indeed no country house hereabouts has so heautiful a $etting of trees that have grown to it and with it. Hammond's lake just behind the house (which was Lord's Lake, filled with the succulent muskalung and afloat with stately swans), has also grown more (Co11timied on Page 22) The stair corner of the entrance Ital/. Photographs by Ellison The dining-room has long French windows opening Tltis cltanning bronze bas-relief por East and West. tra1t of Marjo1·y Bemidettc, dcmghter The w a l l s arn of Mr. an.cl Mn .. Oliver Leo Beaudette green damask, the of Pontirr.c, wa� modeled by Mrs. Eliza.� chairs and carpet beth Pa.lnier Bradfield of Pontiac. green ,:elO'tlr. -- Mrs. Bradfield _exhibits extensi-rely in New Yo1·k, Philctclelphia and Detroit. Janua1·.r. Hi2u 8 THE AFTERGLOW THE AFTERGLOW 9 but lrutely collectors have been so avid in hunting them that there foT are very few genuine ones left. are so c everly . They Oal{ ! imitated, however that the amateur English very eas1 is Old ly deceived. Next to t e coffer, . h the joynt stool and the chair, the By Mrs. Willard T. Barbour piece of furmture most usually found is the court cup board 01 buffet. The : court c_upboard is the name gen eral given to the panelled screen. so that a serving-place, or tuttery, was !: _ larger pieces of this type, where O MANY people, nowadays, are interested in o'.cl fur them is a small cupboard formed.