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New Canaan Now & Then: Pemberly Hill
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‘Now & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Joanne Santulli, Karen Ceraso, Bettina Hegel and Schuyler Morris. Mr. John Patterson, who emigrated from Newton Stewart, Scotland, built the home at the crest of Brushy Ridge in 1880.
Mr. Patterson was a master craftsman in the art of designing and tailoring private livery. At that time, a butler’s, coachman’s or footman’s uniform sometimes cost more than those of the master of the household.
Mr. Patterson founded the house of John Patterson & Co. and erected an impressive building on 33rd street, south of the Waldorf Astoria and also in the 1920s had a shop on Bellevue Avenue in Newport. His successful business prompted him to bring other family members from Scotland to the United States – his relatives the Macnees were northerly neighbors on Brushy Ridge.
His family was one of the first summer residents.