Haute on the Hudson: A Vogue Editor’s New Book Explores a Bygone Way of Life Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Dows Collection1/9The wall fountain on the back terrace at Foxhollow Farm, photographed by Harry Coutant ca. 1917. Tracy hired Henry Hering, best known for his sculptural and architectural work, to design the fountain. It featured a Pan-like cherub playing flutes above a basin into which water streamed from the mouths of three bronze frogs. Hering had been a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Cooper Union, whom he also assisted, and studied at the Art Students League of New York and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Photo: Courtesy of Dows Collection2/9Margaret Dows sitting on a garden bench next to the walled courtyard of the house, summer 1911.
Photo: Courtesy of Dows Collection3/9The Dowses’ suite at The Plaza, 1909. For the first few years after the family moved to Rhinebeck, they would travel to Manhattan and spend a few months during the winter and early spring at hotels, where they socialized with friends and attended performances at the theater and opera. To personalize the rooms they would bring framed family photographs and other items to place on tables and mantles.
Photo: Courtesy of Dows Collection4/9Alice Dows and Mrs. Lewis Iselin sitting on the running board of the Dowses’ car on the beach at Jekyll Island. Lewis is in the driver’s seat. The Iselins, good friends of the Dowses, were also visiting the island in 1916.
Photo: Courtesy of Dows Collection5/9Helen Huntington Astor walking toward her newly married sister, Alice, on the terrace at Hopeland House, the country home of Robert Palmer Huntington, in Staatsburg, New York. The young flower girl is Margaret Dows. Alice Ford Huntington married Charles Henry “Buddy” Marshall, Jr., on June 3, 1917, reported by The New York Times as one of the most important weddings of the year.
