A ROUND DINING ROOM 133 



hall with barreled ceiling. Opening therefrom are the sleeping rooms. 

 The halls are unusual, but considered a success, and form one of the 

 motifs of Sky Rock. 



A basement and first story conservatory and fountain for the 

 southeast corner I never built. Leading from the living room and 

 wide veranda, they would form a feature well worth adding. 



On the south wall was placed a motto-circled sun dial. 



BRIER CLIFF. 



Here is "Brier Cliff," riveted so closely to the ledge as to seem 

 part of it. The veranda built on three sides narrows under the porte 

 cochere on the front and extends to a belvedere on the west. 



A Round Dining Room.* 



Brier Cliff has stone fireplaces, French windows and balconies 

 on three stories, and a circular dining room, with curved bay on the 

 west, opening to the veranda, while the duplicate bay on the east 

 has two mirror doors, reflecting the woods and the ravine gorge 

 through which plunges the river, whose swirling current has worn 

 its way deep into the rock. The steep sides of the ravine are held in 

 place by lofty evergreens, tall walnuts and enormous boulders, some 

 of which make caves within the rough-edged, lichen-covered ledges, 

 while others are strewn in wild confusion along the rugged sides and 

 in the river bed, forming what we called Ausable Chasm, Junior. It's 

 a wild forest scene from the west veranda of Brier Cliff. 



Nearly all rooms are corner rooms, with broad vistas from every 

 window. The centre space in the attic is used as a billiard 

 hall, with balconies built over the valley. There are large rooms at 

 either end. Climbing still another stairway, one enters the tower 

 lookout, commanding the horizon on all sides. North, south, and 

 east are landscaped villas, while on the west is a forest wilderness. 



*In another house an elliptic dining room gave better proportions, the waste corners 

 utilized in adjoining room.- and hall as closets 



