Elephant Barns
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Garage (Elephant Barns)
1938, Frederick J. DeLongchamps
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Garage (Elephant Barns) (Julie Nicoletta)
Whittell used this structure to house his elephants, which he kept at the estate as part of a menagerie of exotic animals to entertain himself and his guests. The spartan style and long, rectangular form of the garage set it apart from most of the other buildings on the estate. The one-story, flat-roofed stone building measures 18 by 50 feet and stands to the north of the main house. The west facade has three paneled metal double doors and irregular diagonal ends, one of whose randomly laid granite walls merges into a low stone wall along the driveway.
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