130 HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE 



rites and sacrifices that make us moderns shudder at the horrible 

 unaccountable cruelty of forbears thank God ages removed. The 

 big arched entrance is half barricaded by a low, stone-capped wall, 

 leaving ample space to enter the vestibule behind it, the design 

 filched from Phillips Brooks' house in Boston. Overhead high stained 

 glass windows are framed in the stones. Opening a heavy oak- 

 battened, iron-studded door, one enters a small but lofty vaulted 

 hall. The dining room is on the same level. It is sixteen feet to the 

 beamed ceiling formed by the second story 4x12 surfaced floor tim- 

 bers. This manner of making a beamed ceiling demands air spacing 

 and very thick deadening to eliminate overhead noise. 



STONEHENGE. 



Dining Room on New Lines. 



Few houses at twice the cost have as fine a dining room as "Stone- 

 henge," whose high ceiling admits of the adjoining space being 

 cut into two seven-foot rooms on different levels. One of these leading 

 from the dining room forms a cosy inglenook, its red leather trimmed 

 settles built each side the fireplace standing out in baronial richness 

 against the ebonized wood. The other adjoining room is the butler's 

 pantry and over both a mezzanine floor, making an ideal den but 

 necessarily with a low seven-foot ceiling. 



On the south side of the dining room French windows open- 

 ing to the floor lead to a sheltered outdoor breakfast room 

 and semi-conservatory. On the west over the low broad ebonized 

 sideboard are especially designed leaded windows through which 

 streams vari-colored light, while on the east is a doorway of the 

 unusual height of fourteen feet, tapestry draped, giving com- 

 manding presence ; in fact, any room rightly located is made impres- 

 sive without extra cost by an unusually high portiered doorway. 



