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architects for commissions, usually but not always-from the patrons’ inome
towns. Among the architects who worked at Watch lull were people dis -
tinguished in their own localities and those of national reputation, to
gether with some whose backgrounds cannot he readily traced. The. list
includes William John Cherry of New York; Gardner, Pyne Gardner of
Springfield, Massachusetts; F. F. Gilbert of New York; Edward I. Hinkie of
Philadelphia; Warrington C. Lawrence; Henry IV. Wilkinson of Syracuse, New
York; Greenleaf { Cohh of Boston; George Keller, one of tine Foremost an
ciltects of Hartford, Connecticut; Tracey Magonigle of New York; Mott B.
Schmidt, a New York society archi tect well known in the l9lOs and I 920s
tVil Ii a.m Ralph Emerson of Boston ; Grosvenor Atterhury and John A. Tonnpk ins
of New York; Wilson Eyre of Philadelphia; and john Russell Pope.
Though the custom of seasonal migration that spawned Watch 11111’s de
velopment has changed since the turn of the century, tine area survives today
as a inni xed ne ghborhooc1 o.f year - round i nilahi tants wi tin a cons i dc rahl e number
of summer residents from greater New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and
Washington, i.C. Watch Hill is a remarkably well preserved historical com
munity notable for its architectural and environmental quality and its
evocation of an important phase in American social history.