Is this a great country or what?

"Secondly, I'm not so needy and attention-seeking that I care what a bunch of strangers on an anonymous message board think about me"

Says the guy who felt that deep... bursting urge.... to say in his very first line.....

"I'm well off"

Or, the very same guy who pleaded with everyone on this forum to believe that he is inherently a decent and honest person, with that long embarrassing post about how "honest" he is.

No, he doesn't care at all what people think of him

ROTFLMFAO 

The same guy who recently, openly and blatantly, lied about quotas and picking black players over white players.....

LOL.... quite the man, this Piss Mint

Actually Peeper, my home at the time was designed by Delano and Aldrich, probably their best home in the Midwest. Here’s  who they are, schplotsky!

Delano & Aldrich was an American Beaux-Arts architectural firm based in New York City, New York. Many of its clients were among the wealthiest and most powerful families in the state. Founded in 1903, the firm operated until 1935 as a partnership, when Aldrich left for an appointment in Rome. Delano continued in his practice nearly until his death in 1960.

Contents

• 1History
• 2Notable works
• 3Archives
• 4References
• 5External links

History[edit]

The firm was founded in 1903 by William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich, who met when they worked together at the office of Carrère and Hastings in the years before the turn of the 20th century.

Almost immediately after the firm was formed, they won commissions from the Rockefeller family, among others. Delano & Aldrich tended to adapt conservative Georgian and Federal architectural styles for their townhouses, churches, schools, and a spate of social clubs for the Astors, Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys. Separately (Delano was the more prolific) and in tandem, they designed a number of buildings at Yale.[1]

Aldrich left the partnership in 1935 to become the resident director of the American Academy at Rome, where he died in 1940.[2]Delano continued to practice almost until his death in 1960.[3]

Notable works[edit]

• Hathaway, Tannersville, New York, 1907.
• High Lawn, (Lenox, Massachusetts), a wedding gift for William B. Osgood Field and his wife, Lila Sloane Field, 1908; one of the "Berkshire Cottages", with bas-reliefs by the bride's cousin Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
• Barbey Building, 15 West 38th Street, 1909.
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1910. Their first major public commission.
• (Center for Inter-American Relations), 1911. Neo-Federal townhouse, part of a harmonious row continuing a theme set by McKim, Mead, and White next door, in the first flush of buildings along Park Avenue, formed by covering over New York Central tracks in the area.
• Wright Memorial Hall (now Lanman-Wright Hall), Old Campus, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1912. Brownstone Collegiate Gothic.[1]
• Kykuit, the principal Classical Revival mansion in the Rockefeller family estate, Sleepy Hollow, New York, 1913.
• Willard D. Straight House, 5th Avenue, 1914. Later used as the headquarters of the National Audubon Society and the International Center for Photography. An English brick block, in the manner of Sir Christopher Wren at Hampton Court, was Americanized with black shutters.
• Belair Mansion, major renovation, in Bowie, Maryland, 1914.
• St. Bernard's School, 98th Street, 1915.
• Knickerbocker Club, 62nd and Fifth Avenue, 1915. A discreet Federal townhouse on Fifth Avenue.

• Colony Club, 62nd and Park Avenue, 1916.
• Woodside (demolished), (Syosset, New York), for James A. Burden and his wife, Florence, 1916. The architects worked the spirit of Annapolis's Whitehall, a 1760 plantation house, into the design.
• Greenwich House, 1917. The community later added two floors to this center, stretching the Georgian townhouse manner to the limit.
• Francis F. Palmer House (later George F. Baker, Jr. House), 75 East 93rd Street at Park Avenue, 1918 (altered with a ballroom wing added in 1928).
• Cutting Houses, 12 to 16 East 89th Street, 1919.
• Cushing Memorial Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island, 1919.
• Oheka, Huntington, New York, 1919.
• Harold Pratt House, 68th and Park, 1920, built for Harold I. Pratt; it is now headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Interiors of the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1922.[4]
• Chelsea, the Benjamin Moore Estate, Muttontown, New York, 1923.[5]
• Sterling Chemistry Lab, Science Hill, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1923.[1]
• Third Church of Christ, Scientist; Park Avenue at 63rd Street, 1924.
• 1040 Park Avenue, at 86th, apartment building, 1924. In low relief along a classical frieze, tortoises alternate with hares. Condé Nast took the penthouse.
• Sage-Bowers Hall, Yale School of Forestry, New Haven, CT, 1924 (Sage), 1931 (Bowers). Two buildings in brownstone Collegiate Gothic style.[1]
• Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1925. Collegiate Gothic.[6]
• The Brook, 111 East 54th Street, 1925
• Fathers Building, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ, dedicated September 1925.
• William L. Harkness Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1927. Collegiate Gothic.[1]
• Chapin School, at 84th and East End Avenue, 1928. Neo-Georgian
• McPherson House, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ, 1929
• 63 Wall Street, 1929. Vertical bands of windows alternate with ashlar limestone cladding in setbacks to a penthouse with Art Decogargoyles.
• Alpha Chi Rho, now part of the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT, 1930.[1]
• The U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale,[7] 1930. Designed with Chester Holmes Aldrich, the building was constructed of Istrian marble and pink brick.[8]
• "Peterloon," Indian Hill, Ohio, for John J. Emery, 1931
• Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., 1931
• American Embassy, Paris, 1931
• Frank Porter Wood home, Toronto, 1931. Now Crescent School.[9]
• U.S. Post Office, Glen Cove, New York, 1932
• Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, 1932. Georgian colonial group of buildings.[1]
• Union Club, 69th and Park Avenue, 1933. A smoothly rusticated Italianate limestone palazzo in the manner of London clubs of the 19th century, "one of the last great monuments of the American Renaissance".[10]
• Pan American Airways System Terminal Building (now Miami City Hall), Dinner Key in Miami, Florida, 1933
• Boxwood Lodge, near Mocksville, North Carolina, 1933-1934
• New Post Office Department, Washington, D.C., 1934

LMAO!

Moffie, the fact that they have a Wikipedia entry and lots of references doesn't change the fact that your garish and ostentatious house looks like it was co-designed by Sol Kerzner and Vladimir Tretchikoff.

Maybe you were just the sucker who paid them big bucks to design your house and they subcontracted to some clown outfit knowing that you were too stupid to know the difference?

Just a thought . . .

Sol was a great hotelier, he knew what the public wanted.

Pfffffhahahaha!

The drunken old fop has been posting here for over a decade and still doesn't know how to put a picture up!

Here ’s the classic.....‘maybe you gave them big bucks to design your house’. They stopped operating in 1934 you moron, it says so clearly in the clip. You just can’t stop making a fool of yourself. 

What's your point, Moffie? You would have been in your 30s or 40s in 1934, not so?

LMAO!

Well let’s see I’m  nearing 73....subtracting from 2020  puts me in my 30s or 40s  in the period 1977 to 1997. How the blue blazes do you figure I would be that age before 1934? This should be interesting...the floor is your’s.

As for your description of the property, this is a bit more accurate:

One of the finest residences along Chicago's North Shore, Fairlawn was designed by prominent New York architects Delano and Aldrich, and completed in 1923. This stately Georgian-Federal manor home epitomizes the best American architecture of the 1920's. It is poised on over three acres of sweeping lawns and cultivated green gardens with many specimen trees. The interior showcases a grand symmetrical scale with high ceilings, 11 fireplaces, a pecan-paneled library, a garden room with original murals, exceptionally spacious living and dining rooms, a third floor domed art studio and a De Giulio kitchen that opens to the family room. The addition of an outdoor pool and two bedroom coach house with 7 car garage (attached to the primary residence by a heated tunnel) provide luxury amenities for today's lifestyle. Fairlawn is a private retreat, located in the heart of east Lake Forest, one-half block from Lake Michigan and Forest Park Beach. To own Fairlawn is an opportunity of a lifetime!

Listing courtesy of MRED / Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff

Why we dig it: The owner of this eight-bedroom, 13,650-square-foot Georgian-style mansion bought the home in the early 1980s and built a tunnel out to the home’s two-bedroom carriage house, which includes a seven-car garage.

The 1920s-era home is located in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, on the shores of Lake Michigan, and the tunnel helps the homeowner get to the carriage house and garage without having to brave the winter elements, Downey says.

“You may have heard Chicago gets snow every once in a while,” she jokes.

Children love to ride skateboards down the tunnel, and otherwise play in it year-round, she says. “It’s very intriguing to have a tunnel, as you can imagine.”

Reminds me of this old place:

And this one...lots of these kinda homes in these parts...sort of anyway.

Moffie, that doesn't look like the same house. Did you move house or could you not find the same picture on Google images that you used the last time?

What looked like a tacky and ostentatious restaurant somewhere in the Valley of Waves at Sun City now looks like an Auschwitz gas chamber on top of a hill.

What happened to the concrete gargoyles that lined the stairs in the last pic you used . . . and where's the cardboard sign saying "Moffie's pad"?

LMAO.....  I see this house sold for over $3 million just 2 years ago 

What the hell is all the fuss about here ?

Absolutely the same house Peeper, and it was sold in 2018 after living there for 30 years.....hosting countless events, marriages, family gatherings and museum visits, including contingents from the Victoria and Albert museum, the Hawaiian Botanical Gardens and Kew Gardens among many others.

As I said, one of the great houses of the Midwest. 

...a view of the river would have been, Moz.

Jett y + inboard and I'm sold.

Actually it was a view of Lake Michigan Plum. We built a new house a few blocks away .....more suitable for the road ahead with mod cons like an elevator etc.

Peeper you seem to be struggling without the garden statuary.....I’m sure you will find a few here: https://www.redfin.com/IL/Lake-Forest/965-E-Deerpath-60045/home/17664691

Nice library, did you keep or leave the books?

I’d say we kept about 40% of them Draad.....love books!

I would brave Chicago winter's if I could own this LOVELY house.

Mr Evans (Piss Mint) has left the house.  

That makes it even funnier......what a mega loser.

Don't waste your time with a guy who is familiar with row homes, shanties, and deals in Rands and Zimbo Dollars.

What you are posting here is way too much for him to absorb and appreciate.

Way out of his league for sure.

Way out of my league too, but I'm OK with that. I'm content with what I've got...not much, but I'ts mine... and there are cold beers in the fridge...

Elke haan is koning op sy eie mishoop, Draad

Fuck me, you must really be a very special kind of loser to have to constantly try and belittle a fellow poster about what their house looks like...… especially for something like 10 years or more now

Even the specific detail about what lined the stairs... etc etc... LMFAO

This has clearly been eating away at how pathetically sad he has done for himself.... shame

Man, he really did inspect that picture hey.....close up, lol..... and without a doubt the success of a fellow poster clearly left an impression on the poor lad

LMAO

Too funny... what is it 10 - 15 years or more now ?

Goodness me, reading some of the recent comments on this thread one would swear that I was the one who raised the issue of Moffie's hideous, garish and ostentatious house! 

LMAO!

Some very angry people on here! I'll repeat the friendly and well-intended advice I gave out a few weeks ago . . . some of you chaps need to get out a bit more and interact with real people.

Seriously!

Says the guy who still carries on making insulting comments about someone's picture of their house that was posted on a forum many many years ago....…. even down to the detail of what lined the stairs

You clearly don't get it Piss Mint....it's got nothing at all to do with who brought the topic up... it does however have everything to do with how much you still remember that picture of that house....and clearly how much it still eats and tears you up inside, that a fellow poster has a house like that

Piss Mint hates seeing success, because it remind him of his daily failures.

Shame man

Ah the light hearted Peeper.....he’s such a playful, friendly fellow. And jealous? Surely not? 

Oh dear . . . so here we have DumbAss who is more in need of my advice than anyone else mashing the keyboard again in a red rage . . .

LMAO!

I tried!

You tried? No you lied....and everybody on this thread knows that.

JEALOUSY. 

You can now see why ou rooitwit hates Trump. Trump the Billionaire makes poor rooitwit lose what little mind he has! 

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 

Rooi just be satisfied with what you have. Seems you are okay and so just be thankful. 

Draad has the right attitude. We are ordinary folk but happy. 

I knew Alan  Patton , an odd fella, a good man that was over sensitive to the bad treatment of black people

Alan was a neighbour... cry the belovered 

Alan was a lovely old man...Allan was clever and an old boy of Maritzburg. All these characterers in life including some heavies .. Alan wrote" Crty my Beloved cCountry:"...I was born in Ixopo AT CHRIST THE KING hOSPITAL IN IXOPO,,, THE FILM STARTED IN IXOPO, WITH MY MATE IRISHMAN, HARRIS, WHO is croaked with Peter no soon afterwards...lovely okies, real good sense of humour and what they actually hate was fame or public scrutiny.  

https://youtu.be/CPMpeNDIGdk

I really liked Richard Harris... he was a a Irishman.

Rooinek you