The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-22
HELEN GOULD IS NOW
WIFE OF FINLEY SHEPARD
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every path through Lyndhurst Park.
down to tho river? Have they not
driven through the grounds and walk
ed under the big trees. and been en-
tertained time and again at Lyndhurst
ny l~.Nndhurst's mistress? Have not
their children gone every week in tho
spring and summer for years to be
taught cooking and sewing and do
nestle science. and often to play
games. and to have wonderful times in
h big park?
: LNndhtrst Park and I.yndhurst con-
servatory are open. six days in the
week. to every one who wants to pass
the big gates. At Lyndhurst there
have been for years parties and pic
MICS and classes and clubs. To the
world at large. Miss Gould's home is a
beautiful country place: to Miss
Gould's ncighhors. and to the families
of poor o who have been her guests
from time tn time. I.yndhurst is not
only beautiful-it is 4; place loved and
intimate and known by heart.
Not PrctcntiOus.
Miss GOuld'S country estate is not
Very large. M it is not at all mag
nitiicent. That some of finest trees in
That it has some of tho finest trees in
this part of the country and one of
the two or three largest Conservatives
In America is a part of it's beauty. but
l.yndhurst is by no means a protein
tious estate. The park, of IL little
more than eighty-onc acres. runs
down to tho Hudson from Tarrytown's
Broadway, and the house. built Of
gray stone with towers and turrets.
like an old English castle. nestles be-
Jay Could bought the place in the
carly eighties and added IL wing to the
house. His daughter. who was
brought up at %Lyndhurst. has made
practically no changes in house or
grounds. The stonc house-not a
large house for a miliionaire's country
dwellings, built in Il style that re-
architecture. 1t is quite hidden from
the road. but travellers by boat up the
river have a fairly good view of what
looks like ~ castle standing back
among the trees. u ;fS the trains go
Through Tarrytown a watch to the
n%orthward will bring Il glimpse of
I.yndhurst. half hidden and much
farther away.
Helen Has Added Little.
! There arc towers and Oricl windows,
HUT there are also broad porches and
a SUI plrlor at I.yndhurst. 1t looks
like Il rambling. comfortable place.
Miss Gould'S friends say it Is a pleas
ant place to live ill.," Inside there
are big rooms and wide stairways. d
small art gallery. and Il valuable lib
irary. JAY Gould collected the pictures
and the rare editions. Miss Gould
herself, except in tho gathering to-
gether of her own personal books. has
added almost nothing to the Lynd-
hurst collection There are a few
excellent paintings by French and
English masters in the art gallery, but
it is not. as in SO many rich folks
homes. tho significant feature of the
estate. The library and the conserva-
tories are larger and more important,
And although the library is quite pri.
vatc, tho big c~onservatories of Lynd-
hurst are always open on week days
to the public.
The Lyndhurst conservatorics ar,
Joined together AS wings in one I'M
mense building on the slope Of the
hill not far from the river. Miss
,fiOuld'S father started the ronscrva.
tories. and Miss Gould has kept then
up. adding to their collections from
time to time and never altering tho
custom that gave he country people 1.
all he ncighborhoOd 81 personal inter,
est in the Gould plants ana flowers
There arc trees and great tropica
plants, flowers of all kinds and from
all places. in Miss Gould's grecnlOus
i"s. And there arc few collections %
tho kind in America SO large or S,
beautiful.
Miss Gould has never changed thu
house her father bought. nor park
the big grounds. nor laid out for.
NAL gardens: the beauty of I%.yndhurs
is II beauty of trees and roses afTt
w"l-krpt lawns, "a very simple ant
natural beauty. but certain innova
tions in the Gould homestead are du,
to Miss (SOuld and To mn ono cycC
When Helen Gould became owner