MR. AND MRS. ALFRED ROSE like to meet each season on its own terms. In winter they live in the city-19 stories above the very center of New York. In summer they go to Lake Placid to an island accessible only by boat. Here architect Robert Allan Jacobs has designed for them a small house airy as a ship's bridge, reaching 14 feet over the water. It takes the place of their original house which burned down three years ago. Since it was impossible to get materials for rebuilding at that time, Mr. Jacobs suggested they remodel the boat house instead. As it turned out, the Roses like the house so well that they have dropped all plans for a larger place and say they never want a big house again. Within the original area of the boat house (32 by 70 feet) they have everything they want. Boat slips are directly below, the bathing beach close by. Mrs. Rose' favorite colors, yellow and scarlet with black accents, give a holiday air against the green mountains (opposite and on the cover). As there is nothing elaborate in the place, they can close it up and forget it at summer's end.
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source: House and Garden Magazine | August 1949
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