| Show have studios in stables special correspondence hundreds perhaps thousands of per son live in stables on the island ot manhattan from necessity and so much do we associate a stable as a home for a coachman s family it seems odd that a good many persons should make their homes in such places not from necessity but from choice to any one who knows his new york well the idea of using sta bles as artists studios will not come as a surprise in all sorts of queer places in this big town of ours the stable studio re eals itself to the in vitiated by the great window built tri above the root tor the north light choice has been the motive for caus ing several men in new york to select stables as ther permanent homes it is a bizarre biste tiste it you will tor in most instances the occupants of these stable homes could have selected al most any kind of a more conventional dwelling A slight reservation in this respect might be made in the case of J Q A ward the sculptor whose studio and home was brigl origl nally a stable in west fifty second street and has only been altered as to its front as shown in the picture and the necessary changes in the interior above the first floor to n ake it habit able to the average sculptor who prefers to live in the city the question of a studio is always a serious matter he must necessarily have a large room for working on statues of heroic size and tor the occasional use of a horse when an equestrian group Is under way the proximity of the stu dio to the street Is alays a great colv lenience studio and home mr ward took all these things into consideration some years ago when he hit upon the idea of using a con vent lonal two story stable for a combi nation of studio and home his work rooms are on the ground floor and the liv ng apartments on the two floors above in passing this bin gular look ing house one is likely to see a tern horary wooden runway laid over the entrance steps by the marks of a horse s hoofs on its battens one may know that the sculptor is making studies from a horse hat has led up the runway into t e stable in the first block of forty fourth street west of fifth avenue you could not throw a suk very far without hit ting either a magnificent clubhouse or a dingy stable so noteworthy are these first named buildings that the seeing new york coaches generally roll through the street and the lee afro e tells the passengers all about the group of famous clubs just be yond the city home of the new york yacht club and on the same side ot the street the lecturer calls the lis beiers attention to what he styles the little hoise of the four doc tors the building stands beside a dilapidated two story etui ie of which it was once a counterpart but now the front shows bright face to the passer by with two large windows on each floor and as neat an entrance door as you would find the city over tho windows are shaded by striped awnings and t you look closely you will see in one of the windows on the ground floor four small signs bear ing the names of as many doctors who make their homes and have their offices in the comely little building it costs a good deal of money to chance the dingy stable interior into a habitable place for the complete of such a alone is a considerable item the four doc tors have lived there for everal years now and in spite of their home being a next door to a stable thy seem to be perfectly content with tl air unusual dwelling it is certain their house Is better known to many vis tors to new bolh than are those of many more famous doctors art st s P abode it is one of the privileges of being a bachelor that a man in that state may live where he w 11 and if he be a bache or of social aspirations an apartment in some picturesquely odd place often gives him a cachet that the smartest rooms in a regular apartment house would never bestow on him harry ford 1 as uch a bach f elor home in no less a p ace than the bo stable in east sixty fiet E ret directly adjoining the home of his sister this stable outwardly re sen hies a queer combination of a sa ble and oae of the three story brown stone houses that used to give new yorks streets such an appearance of monotony the first floor is devoted to carriage room harness room and stalls while the top floor is set apart tor the use of the coachman and his family alongside of the double doors leading to the carriage room a flight 0 brownstone steps leads up to the entrance to the hall from which a short flight of stairs affords access to mr ford s rooms chih occupy the whole of the second floor and which are cut off from the colaes above and below by sound proof floors the place is sunny quiet Is near the avenue and has an outlook orione of the most beautiful private dwellings in new york the home of commodore gerry which stands on the opposite corner from the bostwick Bob house and mr s stable nome robert reid s studio and his bach elor apartment adjoining it are on the top floor of a building that was once used as a stable but which in recent years has been used by a firm of stained glass manufacturers the building is in east thirty third street and besides being celebrated for the stained glass made in t has also won renown in the social world from the entertainments given in a musical stu dio on the second floor mr areld s studio Is probably the finest artists workroom in america at some longi distant time hay may have been stored on the floor he lives on but he has transformed it in such a way that its ever having been a stable 1st the last thing you would think of in the beautiful apartment as it Is to day |
