Property of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Causey, Rhode Island | architect: Hugh Stubbins, Jr.

10/24/2025 08:48:00 PM

Bayfield, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Causey’s stock farm at Wakefield, Rhode Island, began almost casually from a Yankee habit of orderliness. To prevent the wild brush and scrub pine from taking over the wide meadows about their house, the Causeys sowed clover and pasture grasses. To keep the hay from going to waste, they built a small barn for a few “family animals.” As their enthusiasm grew, more barns were added and new fields were bulldozed from the rocky soil. Today, Mr. Causey, who is by profession a landscape architect, is also a full-time farmer. Most of his 60 acres are in pasture; his herd of pure-bred Holstein Friesian cattle has increased to 50 head and the herd sire has been judged Grand Champion at the Eastern States Exposition. With equal success the Causey house, designed by architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr., takes full advantage of its surroundings. Its unaffected grace is completely at ease in the midst of a formal garden originally developed by Mr. Causey for a house that burned. Like the farm, the house is growing: a new wing for the children is now under construction.