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OUTIaOOIG
VOL. XXV.
NOVEMBER 1921
NO. 1
STRIKING EXTENSION OF
DEVELOPMENT WORK
Marked Expansion During
the Year Past
Bion H. Butler
THE season opening now at Pinehurst
sees the most pronounced develop
ment of the surrounding country
that has taken place in any one year since
Moore county aspired to be a -winter
resort or an industrial possibility, and
the prospects in sight tell that the year
about to begin will outclass the one clos
ing, as well as the others that are gone.
It may come as a surprise to many, but
it is likely that the community of which
Pinehurst is a center, is advancing so
rapidly in each of two lines that it is hard
to say which is making the more signifi
cant progress, the industrial or social
phase. Both show an investment of well
up toward a million dollars for the clos
ing year. Both point to things on big
planes for the coming year, as an ex
amination will disclose.
No one will question that the prominent
feature of the year's work. has taken place
over at Mid-Pines country club. There
the first unit of the fine new club house
has been so nearly completed that the
building will be ready for use in January,
adding to the attractions of the Pinehurst
season a supplement that will materially
broaden the facilities for caring for large
numbers of patrons who will make use of
the additional golf room and housing
conveniences the new club provides. Mid
Pines, a creation by Donald J. Eoss, the
golf architect, with its club house, golf
course, roads, improvements of various
sorts, and the private improvement in the
vicinity represents an outlay of half a
million dollars, with a following outlay
for next year of another vast sum, for
Knollwood, of which Mid-Pines is the first
manifestation, has only commenced. Mid
Pines is the beginning of a great project
embracing over 5,000 acres now in the
hands of Warren S. Manning, the land
scape and community designer, which can
not be outlined because he has not yet
sufficiently developed his scheme to reduce
it to figures and words. Preliminary
survey sheets show that it is bigger than
most of us can realize. Knollwood is
shaping for a place unlike anything else in
existence, and one that will utilize to the
best advantage the incomparable climate
of North Carolina's Sandhills country
and its proximity to the mass of popula
tion of the United States which is within
a day 's ride of the Knollwood location.
However, the future is for tomorrow.
The present is of today. The Mid-Pines
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Upper: Eighteenth Green at Mid-Pines showing part of Club House in
the distance.
Lower: The Fifth Green, requiring a second shot over the pond.
club house is a creation by Aymar Embury
11, of New York, a young man whose
architectural work is giving the Sandhills
a distinctive atmosphere. The club house
is an original theme, worked out to
harmonize with the setting of the pine
groves on the surrounding ridges, and
is one of the few large buildings in rural
North Carolina planned to thoroughly fit
the environment in type, form, color and
location. "When the entire building is
completed it will be ranked among the
interesting structures of the South.
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; Editor
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NEW MID-PINES CLUB
NEARING COMPLETION
Ready for Occupancy
January 1
THE new Mid-Pines Golf Club at
Knollwood, which was the subject
of wide-spread discussion through;
out last season, is now a reality, and with
one of its two 18-hole golf courses will
be thrown open for occupancy early in
January. All that remains for the com
pletion of the building are the finishing
touches and furnishings which will be
completed in every detail between now
and January first.
. The club is a beauty and one of the
model institutions of its kind in the coun
try. It is situated among the tall pines
just below the crest of the ridge three
miles out the new highway to Southern
Pines, and commands a beautiful view
of the surrounding country and vistas
of the golf course fairways. It is a brick
veneer structure approximately 500 feet
long and three stories high, with 65
residential rooms, each with private bath,
main and private dining rooms, ladies'
parlor, two large fire proof locker rooms,
one for men and one for women with
something over 100 lockers in each, shower
baths, card and billiard rooms, an enor
mous sun room, and another large room
28x70 which will be used as an amuse
ment hall for such diversion as may be
' desired. But the glory of the house is the
spacious living room with its immense
open fire-place. This room is 36x86 feet,
faces south and east and overlooks an open
terrace. Arthur E. Richardson, formerly
of the Carolina at Pinehurst, will manage
the club this season.
The 18-hole golf course has been fin
ished. It is now in excellent playing
condition, and will be thrown open for
play when the club is opened early in
January.
The establishment of the club at Knoll
wood has exerted a marked influence on
Pinehurst development plans. Mr. James
Barber and Judge "W. A. Way. have al
ready built winter homes close to the club,
and Mr. Leonard Tufts has work well
under way on a residential property of his
own that will represent an outlay of close
to $100,000. It is situated just outside
of Pinehurst on the boulevard leading to
Knollwood and Southern Pines and will
be used as his own home. Residential
plots are being rapidly taken up all along
the boulevard and in all probability the
three resorts will soon be connected by an
unbroken stretch of residential properties,
and together will comprise the greatest
winter play-ground in the world.