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Christopher Bascom Rawlins

Foreword by Alastair Gordon

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Horace Gifford,

ca. 1960

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Photo by Paul

Cadmus. Portrait

of George Platt

Lynes and Jonathan

Tichenor, Cherry

Grove, NY, 1940

OPPOSITE:

Luck House,

Bridgehampton, NY,

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Globus House,

Corneille Estates,

NY, 1966! # levation

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additions, 1971

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Bonaguidi House,

interior

OPPOSITE, LOWER LEFT:

Aerial photograph

of Fire Island Pines,

1950s

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Bonaguidi House,

Fire Island Pines,

NY, 1968, peepholeperspective


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Roeder House, Fire

Island Pines, NY, 1969


10/22

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Cashel House, Fire


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OPPOSITE, UPPER LEFT:

Evans-DePass House,

Fire Island Pines, NY,

1965

OPPOSITE, UPPER RIGHT:

Cashel House, Fire


OPPOSITE, BELOW:

Wittstein-Miller House

II, Fire Island Pines,

NY, 1963


12/22

18

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Site sketch

for DeSwaan

House (unbuilt),

Bridgehampton, NY,

1968

OPPOSITE:

Evans-DePass House,

Fire Island Pines, NY,

1965

RIGHT:

Gifford House II, Fire



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At the Meat Rack, n.d.

OPPOSITE, UPPER RIGHT:

Local newspaper

account of Meat Rack

raid that ensnared

Horace Gifford,

August 13, 1965

OPPOSITE, BELOW:

Map of Fire Island

Pines, showing Meat

Rack at its western

edge

OPPOSITE, MIDDLE LEFT:

arrest report

LEFT:

The Mattachine

Review, February

1958

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The Mattachine

Review, May 1959

RIGHT:

Mattachine Society

advertisement, n.d.


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BELOW, LEFT:

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foreground, ca. 1967

BELOW, RIGHT:

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Larkin Company

Administration

Building, Buffalo, NY,

1906

OPPOSITE:

Burge Pavilion, FireIsland Pines, NY, 1965


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PAGES 8889:

Sprague-Geller House, the American Home, May

1966

TOP:

Evans-DePass House, Fire Island Pines, NY, 1965,

interior

ABOVE:

Evans-DePass House, interior

LEFT:

Evans-DePass House, floor plan

OPPOSITE:

Evans-DePass House


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PAGES 923:

Gifford House II, Fire Island Pines,

NY, 1965

OPPOSITE:

Gifford House II

BELOW:

Gifford House II, cross-section

perspective


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LEFT:

Gifford House II,

guestroom and

drafting studio

OPPOSITE:

Gifford House II,

master bedroom


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UPPER LEFT:

Gifford House II, kitchen

UPPER RIGHT:

Gifford House II, floor plan,

overlaid with golden-section

proportions in red

LOWER LEFT:

Piano action hung in Gifford House II

MIDDLE LEFT:

Horace Gifford. Untitled sketch of

piano action, 1964

OPPOSITE:

Gifford House II, living area

hg foreword + intro + chapter 4

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