Glen Cove

Remnants of the John Rogers Maxwell Estate "Maxwellton," in the Red Spring Colony section of Glen Cove, still exists, including a portion of the main house, though now widely separated by modern development. John Rogers Maxwell (1846–1910) was a banker and broker, President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, vice-president of the Long Island Railroad in the 1880's, and President of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, which supplied the cement for the Panama Canal.

John Rogers Maxwell Residence (William B. Tubby, 1899) 1901 view. GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

In 1898, he hired the architect William B. Tubby (1858–1944) to lay out the site and design the buildings for his country estate at Glen Cove. Tubby was then engaged in designing the Carnegie Libraries in Brooklyn, and had designed an addition to Maxwell's Park Slope residence. The Red Spring Lane estate included a large Colonial Revival styled main residence, a stucco gate lodge with a hipped roof and Moorish round headed dormers, an elaborate Georgian Revival stable complex, a caretaker's cottage with flared gambrel roof and exposed rafter ends, a reinforced concrete carriage house, and a brick water tower. All but the stable are extant, as portions of more recent buildings, except the carriage house, which is presently unaltered.