![]() ![]() ![]() Eighty of the early houses remained, updated for modern living but proudly displaying ornamented brown-shingle facades, artist-studio windows and other period features. More than 50 years after Lawrence Park ceased to exist as an art colony, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in recognition of its historic and architectural significance. Bates designed the Park's single-family "cottages" in a pleasing variety of turn-of-the-century styles. ![]() Edmund Clarence Stedman was called the Poet of Wall Street. Alice Wellington Rollins was a regular contributor to the day's literary magazines. Anna Winegar's Impressionist garden scenes illustrated horticultural books by Louise Beebe Wilder. Will Low designed murals for government buildings and private mansions. William Smedley painted distinguished society portraits. In the years between 18, Lawrence Park was the home of two dozen nationally prominent painters, writers and architects. Lawrence Park is the story of Bronxville's turn-of-the-century art colony: the artists and their art, the houses they lived in and how the village of Bronxville grew up around them. ![]()
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