ELDERSLIE
Built in 1903, originally as a residence for R.E. Christie, American Tobacco Company Executive. Henry Law established the Briarhills Country Club on the site of the old Briarcliff Golf Club in 1921. A clubhouse was built and an eighteen-hole golf links of 6,366 yards was designed by golf architect Devereux Emmet. The 150-acre property was bounded roughly by Dalmeney, Poplar and Pine roads, with a strip south of Pine extending behind Tuttle Road to Long Hill Road East. The grounds included the Christie, later Melady, property and the large white house named Elderslie, which for a time served as the clubhouse. Two generations of the Law family, Henry and after him, Teodore Gilman Law, directed the club until some years after World War II, when it was sold and became Briar Hall Country Club. "Besides...golf, tennis, riding, skiing, toboganning, skating and coasting, the Club...[offered] every facility for indoor entertainment".
The property is currently occupied by Clementine (A Monte Nido Affiliate), which offers residential eating disorder treatment for adolescent girls.
