TZAIMS LUKSUS & BUCKTHORNE HALL
The Story of Tzaims Luksus & Buckthorne Hall In 1901 Howard Hart Shields, The youngest son of Capt. Hamilton LeRoy Shields, of the wealthy Troy, NY Family of Hart, Howard, White, Finch, Eddy, designed a rough draft of a house he had the archjtect William Clarke Bull design, for his wife Caroline Lane, also of Troy, NY, and then commissioned Martha Brooks Brown, the first woman landscape designer, to create formal and informal gardens. She had just finished the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC. Howard, being the youngest child was artistic and poetic and like George Wadhington Vanderbilt, and James Colgate was more a socialite artist living on his family wealth and was not a business man, but devoting his life to artistic endeavors. In 1910 his wife Caroline Hart died leaving him with their very young daughter Elizabeth and son Hamilton. Lonely and introvert he married his housekeeper, Helen Anderson, but his family never ever accepted he...