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====Tuxedo Park==== [[Pierre Lorillard IV]] conceived the idea of the planned community of [[Tuxedo Park, New York|Tuxedo Park]]. In 1884 he began buying up his siblings' shares in the Augusta tract, with the intention of creating a hunting-and-fishing resort surrounding the 291-acre Tuxedo Lake. The mammoth development project, laid out by the architect [[Bruce Price]] and civil engineer Ernest W. Bowditch, was constructed by some 1,800 [[Italians|Italian]] and [[Slovaks|Slovak]] immigrant laborers in about eighteen months. <blockquote>"When the [[Tuxedo Club]] opened on June 16, 1886, close to 5,000 acres [2,000 ha] had been planned, 30 miles [48 km] of [[macadam]] roads had been built, and 40 buildings stood complete. These were soon joined by a boathouse, a school, a racetrack, a golf course (possibly the second-oldest in the country), indoor tennis courts, a game preserve and breeding ponds, a swimming pool, an electrified [[toboggan]] run, 30 miles of bridle paths, and the first water, sewer, and telephone systems outside a major metropolis."<ref>James D. Kornwolf, "American Architecture and the Aesthetic Movement" ''In Pursuit of Beauty'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), pp. 376-77.</ref> </blockquote> The resort attracted a number of the financial, industrial and social leaders of the day, particularly those who worked in New York City. During the first thirty years, more than 250 houses and stables were built in Tuxedo Park, as well as retail stores and service buildings in the so-called [[Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Hamlet|hamlet]]. Three churches, all still standing (one is used by the Tuxedo Historical Society today), a train station, a library, and a post office were also built, as well as a school and a hospital. Businessmen could commute by rail into New York City.
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