Piping Rock Club

Piping Rock Club is a country club in Locust Valley, New York.

History

The Piping Rock clubhouse was designed by American designer Guy Lowell, and built in 1911. Lowell based his designs on American colonial architecture a desire to link the house with the landscape. Most of the rooms open into a hall which surrounds an internal courtyard.[1]

The Piping Rock contains an 18 hole links style golf course that was designed by Charles B. Macdonald. Its tennis facilities include several indoor courts, clay courts and grass courts. A separate facility on the Long Island Sound provide beach, pool and summer dinning facilities for members.

The club hosted the Piping Rock Horse Show from at least 1912 to 1915.[2][3][4] On October 24, 1937 Cole Porter was in a riding accident that crushed his legs, leading to one of them being amputated years later.[5]

References

  1. ^ MacKay, Robert B.; Baker, Anthony K.; & Traynor, Carol A. (Eds.) 1997. Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940. China: Palace Press, Ltd. ISBN 0-393-03856-4
  2. ^ "Society Aids At Piping Rock Show. Notable People View Amateur Horse Exhibition Amid Long Island Hills". New York Times. October 5, 1912. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E6D7113AE633A25756C0A9669D946396D6CF. Retrieved 2009-12-10. 
  3. ^ "Miss Lida Fleitmann's Right Leg Broken When Mare Falls Upon Her.". New York Times. October 2, 1915. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E7D61138E633A25751C0A9669D946496D6CF. Retrieved 2009-02-02. "Miss Lida Louise Fleitmann, one of the best known women riders in the Long Island hunting set, suffered a double fracture of the right leg yesterday afternoon when she was crushed by her lightweight hunter, Cygnet, which slipped and fell while competing in one of the jumping classes of the Piping Rock Horse Show Association's thirteenth annual exhibition on the grounds of the Piping Rock Club at Locust Valley, L.I." 
  4. ^ "Piping Rock Horse Show Attracts Hunting Set to the Locust Valley Grounds.". New York Times. October 4, 1913. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E1D6113BE633A25757C0A9669D946296D6CF. Retrieved 2009-12-09. "That the horse retains its position in the affections of society and sportsmen and sportswomen generally was again made manifest at the eleventh annual show of the Piping Rock Club at Locust Valley, at which a peep at the names on the boxes overlooking the picturesque inclosure, and under the lee of the clubhouse, showed several hundred who are prominent in the social register." 
  5. ^ Lahr, John (July 12, 2004). "King Cole". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/07/12/040712crat_atlarge. Retrieved 2009-12-09. "On October 24, 1937, Cole Porter went out for a horseback ride at the Piping Rock Club, in Locust Valley, Long Island — one of those swank playgrounds whose names he liked to rhyme in song and which signalled his fully paid-up membership in the Elegentsia. In the woods, the skittish horse, which the forty-six-year-old Porter had been warned against riding, shied and fell on him, crushing both his legs." 

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