THE FERN CORNER 



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THE STAIRCASE HALL. 



and calcimined in suitable colors, and woodwork white enameled, 

 give a homelike look and eliminate all suggestion of a basement. 

 Walls and floors separating the servants' quarters from the main 

 house are thoroughly deadened. 



Outside doors are four feet wide with upper panels glazed. 



Bedrooms. 



Bedrooms number twenty, several en suite, each with its own 

 bath or bath closet, and two with salt water connection. There are 

 three sleeping porches of generous size, and adjoining them cosy 

 windowed and heated dressing rooms. 



An overhanging stair balcony and a studio finished and beamed 

 to the ridge with a window filling the entire north side are additional 

 features. Some bedrooms have curved top bed alcoves from whose 

 brass rods are suspended draperies, and jewel safes are inset in walls. 

 There are burglar-proof vaults concealed in chimney arch in the 



