The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-04
FLY-WIEAY LODGE
In NCURRITUCK
Type of Home of the Jacobean
Period Reproduced on Shores
of North Carolina Sound

On the North shore Of Curri-
tuck Sound, just across the wat
er from Currituck III. and not
thirty miles from Elizabeth
City, two interesting New York
families have built an interest
ing mouse, pictures Of which are
reproduced in this newspaper.
The owners of this quaint home are
Mr.. and Mrs Ogden NJ. Reid and Mr.
and Mrs Vernon G. Rogers, of New
York City Ogden NJ. Reid is a son of
the late Whitelaw Reid and editor of
The New York Tribune. Mrs. Ogden
Reid herself is advertising manager of
The Tribune and has demonstrated her
ability to hold her own in the world
of work as we'll as in the Four Hun
dred in which set she moves out of
working hours.
Vernon G. Rogers, formerly in the
automobile business, is the publisher
of the New York Tribune. Mrs. Yer
non G. Rogers is a busy, brainy. capa-
bic and thoroly modern woman who
knows how to build a house, make a
home and handle a gun. She is one of
the best shots on Currituck Sound and
shoots ducks from floating batteries in
any sort of weather. So much as an
introduction to these our new neigh
bors.
Now the house. Mrs. Rogers has de-
signed and built a good many homes her
self. The planning of the home or
lodge on Currituck Sound was left to
her and she enlisted the services OF
Lewis Bowman, young architect OF
Mt Vernon. n. Y, who isn't afraid of
an idea. They were going to build
house on the shore In looking about
for ideas they hit upon the Pre-Colo-
nial type which our Puritan forefathers
and the very earliest settlers OF our
shores built in New England. Here
was a style that had stood along the
shore for three hundred years and still
showed lines of simple beauty. A few
houses of this type are left standing IN |
this country to-day; several at Salem,
Mass; a few in what is left OF the
original town of Plymouth; the House
of Seven Cables made famous by HaW-
thorne and the Roger Williams House
in Rhode Island.
Product of Native Labor
Now the builders of this type of
house brought no building material with
hem to these shores three hundred
7ears ago except the loaded glass for
he windows of the homes they ropos-
ID to build All of the woodwork was
lewn with old fashioned tools from the
wood grown on the premises and put
o gether by tedious processes. And SO
o make the house on Currituck Sound
ust as near like the original type as
,ossibIe in this machine finished age,
he architect sent nothing down to the
OBJ from the North except the loaded
lass sash and that only because there
re just a few concerns in this coun-
ry who know just how to make this
lass of work.
All of the carpentry was done by To-
al carpenters and helpers who had new
r tackled a job like it before. They
ewed the beams, sawed the boards and
plit the shingles. When it came to the
obstruction of the quaint roof with It's
regular lines, the natives didn't think
luch of it at first, but the creative
pirit triumphed and the job was COM
leted. Speaking of their work, the ar I
hitect, Mr.. Bowman says: 'These men
ook hold of style of building of which
hey had absolutely no previous know