Living with antiques: Rosemary Lodge in Water Mill, New York

Magazine Antiques, July, 2000 by Mary Anne Hunting

(5.) According to an obituary in the Congregationalist, November 6, 1919, the Reverend Rose was taken with a "serious organic disturbance" in 1911. Thereafter his second wife, Grace Backus Rose, continued the diary for him, at times apparently to his dictation. The diary is now in the collection of R. A. Cordingley and Elford A. King. Unless otherwise noted, the quotations in this article and other facts about the house are taken from the diary.

(6.) See n. 1. The biography was written for the 275th anniversary of the First Church of Christ in Northampton, Massachusetts, where Rose was minister between 1892 and 1911. I am grateful to Elbe C. Dennis at the Forbes Library in Northampton for discovering the manuscript and sending a copy to me.

(7.) According to the notes of R. A. Cordingley, this information was in the Southampton Sea Side Times of August 13, 1984, burl was unable to locate a copy to confirm it.

(8.) Rose, "Life of Rev. Henry T. Rose," p. 29.

(9.) For a detailed architectural analysis of the house, see James Warren, "Rosemary Lodge, Water Mill, Suffolk County, New York" (National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet, New York City Office of Parks, Recreation and Historical Preservation, Field Services Bureau, Waterford, New York). I would like to thank James Warren for sharing his information and pictures with me.

(10.) (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1955; 1971), p. 97.

(11.) Lowell [Massachusetts] Courier-Citizen, January 18, 1918. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was not able to confirm this information.

(12.) Stickney first opened an office in Boston in 1882 and then one in Lowell in 1884. In 1892 he formed a partnership with William D. Austin (1856-1944), which lasted, at least in name, until Stickney's death in 1918. See Jeffrey A. Harris, s.v. "Frederick W. Stickney, 1853-1918," in A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine, vol. 7 (Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, 1995). For a listing of his Lowell work, see "Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory for Frederick W. Stickney" (Lowell Historical Board, Lowell, Massachusetts). I would like to thank Stephen R. Stowell for sending me this information.

(13.) See Susan Maycock Vogel, "Hart-well and Richardson: An Introduction to Their Work," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 32, no. 2 (May 1973), pp. 132-146.

(14.) See American Architect and Building News, December 15, 1883.

(15.) Rose, "Life of Rev. Henry T. Rose," p. 15. The First Churches of Northampton has two chairs made by the Reverend Rose. I am grateful to the archivist Kathryn A. Gabriel for this information.

(16.) Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams, Beautiful Homes: How to Make Them (Boston, 1885), p. 4.

(17.) The Reverend Rose's sermoas are in the archives of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City and in a bound volume of manuscripts entitled "Historical Subjects" in the Forbes Library in Northampton.

(18.) Quoted in Clifford Edward Clark Jr., The American Family Home, 1800-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1986), p. 104. Rose was quite familiar with Beecher's magazine Outlook, which he started as the Christian Union in 1870.