
To the west of the main Coleman complex, atop a small ridge and barely visible through the winter trees, stands a splendid early design by Stanford White, just after he had left H. H. Richardson's office. Built for a son-in-law of the Coleman family with New England roots, it brought the international Aesthetic movement to Cornwall. The long, narrow volume of the house is interrupted at the center by a projecting porte-cochere carried on massive piers. Lower walls are of the local brownstone and then shift to a rough-textured stucco accented with small rectangles and large stars formed of glass and pebbles, as if on a beach, a characteristic of Stanford White's earliest work. Large blocks of windows mark the stair and its landing to the left of the door and another window lights the great hall. The site was acquired by the Ladies Garment Workers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1948 as a union recreational facility. They covered the original upper halftimber portions of the house with siding but their general treatment was benign. Shortly thereafter they built changing rooms and recreational facilities on the grounds that were named for Sidney Hillman, the late president of the garment workers’ union (all