The garden estate in Riverdale: the great lawn, the pergola on the terrace edge, the conservatory, and across the Hudson the cliffs of the Palisades catching the last sun.
Wave Hill House was built in 1843 by William Lewis Morris on a bluff above the Hudson in Riverdale, the Bronx. Theodore Roosevelt's family summered there, Mark Twain rented it from 1901 to 1903, and Arturo Toscanini lived there in the 1940s. The financier George W. Perkins assembled the estate and its gardens. His family gave it to the city in 1960, and it opened as a public garden in 1965.
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The long timber pergola on the terrace edge, the flower garden with its rustic fence, the glass conservatory, the fieldstone house, the lawn falling to the river and the wall of the Palisades beyond. Mood: late light on the palisades. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.