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Dining Room. 



Through sliding doors whose pockets are evenly ceiled to guide 

 the door and as protection from dust and draught and whose 

 upper halves are leaded glass to avoid the barn like appearance given 

 by a solid sliding door, one enters the barreled, arched ceilinged dining 

 room. This is partly Grecian, with walls and ceilings paneled in 

 marbleized cement. The floor is of quaint eight inch wide thor- 

 oughly kiln dried oak planks, riveted every four feet with black 

 inset wooden keys. The sliding door to butler's pantry, made to 

 close tightly yet move easily, controlled by foot pressure, is not in 

 direct line with the kitchen door. 



A semi-polygon bay on the Sound side is formed of plate glass 

 picture windows and used as a breakfast alcove while the bay 

 eighteen feet wide on the north fitted with seven deeply embrasured, 

 transomed Elizabethan grouped windows a flagrant lapse from a 

 strictly Greek room is cool and inviting on the hottest day and 

 on the coldest a tropical temperature is assured by the combination 

 of an efficient heating plant and double windows. 



Barreled Ceiling. 



The half moons formed by the barreled or segmented ceiling at 

 each end of this room are decorated, one with viking craft manned 

 by fierce and stalwart Norsemen on battle bent, the other with the 

 historic Mayflower on its errand of peace and good will. The door 

 of the electrically lighted cabinet for the display of cut glass balances 

 the butler's pantry door. 



Living and dining rooms can be thrown into one, giving an 

 area of twenty-five hundred square feet, or, if desired, all of the 

 gala rooms can be made to form one large room, aggregating over 

 six thousand square feet. 



Library. 



On the level with the entrance hall are library and con- 

 servatory, also finished in oak and connected by a short flight of 

 stairs with the living room. This arrangement gives the library 

 a height of sixteen feet, and ample overhead space for the appropriate 

 use of large cambered ceiling beams. 



Under the windows, planted against a panel is a wall fountain 

 of Caen stone and a corresponding panel on the exterior of the house 

 is decorated with a bronze bas-relief. The arch under the stairs and 

 beneath the platform has a uniform spring across the entire space. 

 Below it is an ingle-seat. 



Heraldry. 



An .heraldic design is molded in the hood of the Caen stone 

 cement mantel which rises, in the form of a wide shaft, slightlv 

 tapering, to the extreme height of the room and has rounded instead 



