Crockery & glass journal . I91. STANDING boldly forth from among the pines andoaks on a Westhampton, L. L, hillside that slopestoward Moriches Bay are two somber-looking smaller is a pottery, a roadside haunt which hasrecently gained considerable popularity among membersof the Hamptons summer colonies. The larger struc-ture is/a seventeen-room, three-story residence. Theo-philus A. , who is an odd admixture of artist,artisan, scientist and potter, built it with his own hands,unassisted except by a rough laborer to help mix themortar and carry the bricks. A peep within its
Crockery & glass journal . I91. STANDING boldly forth from among the pines andoaks on a Westhampton, L. L, hillside that slopestoward Moriches Bay are two somber-looking smaller is a pottery, a roadside haunt which hasrecently gained considerable popularity among membersof the Hamptons summer colonies. The larger struc-ture is/a seventeen-room, three-story residence. Theo-philus A. , who is an odd admixture of artist,artisan, scientist and potter, built it with his own hands,unassisted except by a rough laborer to help mix themortar and carry the bricks. A peep within its archingportals is like a journey back through the ages, the onlyjarring note in its make-up being the electric cook stovein the kitchen and the modern plumbing and heatingplant, which Brouwer himself has installed. Mural decorations, the work of his own brush, hand-carved newel posts and mantels, and statuettes of excel-lent design, abound within the castle. Gold, mingled withhues of brown-red and weathered bronze, covers its w
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