EDITOR'S TABLE. 



£0Iloi''3 Ji\h\c. 



Pesion for a Marine Vii-la* — This design, prepared for a gentleman residing in New 

 York during the greater part of the year, is now being erected and is approaching comple- 

 tion at ^Newport, Rhode Island. The site it occupies is several acres in extent, stretching 

 to the sea-shore, and commanding a fine iminterrupted view of the Atlantic. This plot of 

 groxind, now being laid out and planted, is nearly level, and has an abrupt and almost ver- 

 tical fall of fifteen or twenty feet to tlio beach. As a natural consequence, the surf dose to 

 the shore does not come prominently into notice till the margin of the cliff is reached, and 

 there is therefore more of massive breadth tlian of variety or picturcsquencss in the general 

 aspect of the place. Except in very rough weather, tho effect is calm, peaceful, and sug- 

 gestive of the dignified repose of the ocean as a whole rather than of its restless excitement 

 in detail ; it was therefore thought desirable in the design for the house, to avoid irregular- 

 ities and smalhicss of parts as much as possible, and to ^ve more prominence to the hori- 

 zjntal than to the vertical lines of the composition. 



The plan may be thus briefly described : A wide carriage porch affords a covered 

 entrance to a vestibule and roomy hall, the latter communicating directly with the princi- 

 pal rooms and staircase. A dining-room, cabinet, and drawing-room, are arranged en suite, 

 and leave access to an arcade and lawn on the front facing the sea. The drawing-room 

 and a morning-room, purposely disconnected with it, open on a large veranda or pavillion 

 that traverses the south front of the building. It is not unusual in NeAvport to hear it 

 stated that the climate scarcely requires verandas, and that the summer heat is seldom if 

 ever excessive. There is doubtless some truth in this, and a veranda all round a house, as 

 at the south, would be undesirable. Nevertheless, an uninclosed covered promenade is in 

 many ways a decided advantage to a country house ; and since it can generally be arranged) 

 as in this case, that the rooms shall not depend entirely for liglit on windows that are cov- 

 ered by a veranda, its addition seems a clear gain in comfort. The dining-room is in con- 

 nection with a pantry communicating with the kitchen wing, and a corridor from the large 

 staircase hall leads to a small bed-room, private staircase, &c., and to the oflices and 

 servants' staircase. 



The chamber plan is divided into bed-rooms and dressing-rooms ; and a bath-room, &c., 

 is arranged in tho wing, a portion of which is appropriated to bed-rooms for the family, the 

 remainder being devoted to the servants. Two rooms are fitted up in the basement, the 

 rest being occupied by cellars, furnace, &c. 



The house is built with hollow brick walls, a superior face brick being used, Avith brown 

 stone dressings, porch, &c. The veranda, arcade, and bay windows, are of wood. 



The contract, including plumbing and painting, Avas taken at a little over $20,000 ; and 

 the house when completed, with additions, furnace, papermg, &c., AviE probably cost 

 $2,000 more. 



* See Frontispiece. 



