AUDIO
Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
For support regarding donations, send your message here.
2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
For support regarding donations, send your message here.
2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
573 COAST GUARD WALK
AUDIO
Architect: HORACE GIFFORD, 1966. Skylight Loft Addition: HORACE GIFFORD, 1973.
573 Coast Guard Walk is a textbook example of Horace Gifford’s adept fusion of functional requirements and sculptural purity. A cross-shaped plan at the base with a central stairwell dispersed bedrooms and bathrooms for privacy. Upstairs, this cross was overlaid with an octagon to create a great room, an ideal form for communal gathering. Sundecks at each corner inexpensively expanded the living space, critical for the family of eight that piled into this home. In 1973, Gifford added an enormous ocean-facing skylight (recently demolished) that housed a sleeping loft.
The patriarch of this family was one of the creative, eccentric souls that made the Pines what it was, and is. Paul McGregor (1935-2013) is best known for inventing the “shag” haircut, debuted by Jane Fonda in the film Klute (and prototyped on daughter Paula McGregor). He later converted his St.Mark’s Place salon into the world’s smallest roller-skating rink, and eventually into the celebrated Boy Bar. In his later years, McGregor was a flute-playing fixture at Low Tea in the Pines.
Always on trend, Paul McGregor was one of Horace Gifford’s first clients, commissioning a home at 13 Atlantic Walk before moving his growing family to 573 Coast Guard Walk in 1966. This home is still owned by the McGregor family.
Color photo and drawing: Horace Gifford courtesy Christopher Rawlins. Family photos: courtesy FIPHPS.
