The author, who was seven years
old when the building was rising, recalls how he was enthralled to watch the fabric blades of a working Dutch windmill rotating slowly near the main house.  Pure magic for a youngster.  The mill tower is still there, awaiting restoration of the blades. 

Fairview Manor is a good site for a

windmill, being on a hilltop where the daily thermal winds from Lake Ontario have provide reliable wind power.  Indeed, in recent times proposals for “wind farms” inthis area, between Clayton and Cape Vincent, and on nearby Wolfe Island have been controversial in local communities.

Fairview Manor is not “modern” in style, like Niagara Island, but like Nelfred, it is “modern” at least in evading reference to traditional historic styles.  Owner Carl Zimmerman was a cosmopolitan world-traveler, however, no doubt familiar with historic styles.  The interiors were filled with objects collected abroad, many contributing to a sophisticated aura today. The Dutch windmill was but one more item recalling Zimmerman’s travels. The formal planning of house and grounds suggest European precedent. French manor houses were popularized by magazines of the 1920s and 1930s.  But the building is inventive in form, the plan being a bent bar that embraces a spectacular terrace on the river side that provides a vantage point for watching the procession of freighters on the St. Lawrence Seaway, together with stunning sunset views.  Clearly, the concept for the house was generated by this vision of the high terrace.

Within, an oval room with French doors opening onto the terrace is one of the loveliest and most elegant interior spaces of the region.  The character strikes one as very chic French.  Unlike the entry hall, it has no massive stone fireplace recalling the Adirondacks, but rather a classically simply stone frame surrounds the opening.  The late afternoon light, reflected from the river below, creates a memorable glow in this enchanted space.

The main house at Fairview Manor is approached from the highway by a long, straight driveway.  The effect is rather formal, again recalling French practice, as the large building is not merely monumental but symmetrical—not perfectly balanced, however, since pergola extensions connect the windmill tower on one side. By way of balance, ancillary structures are aligned with the driveway on the opposite side, one of them a chapel.

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