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corrosive glass with pendant prisms, upper window sash of leaded 

 glass with a tracery of vines, white tile floor was laid to properly 

 drain, and roof framing beams of galvanized iron painted were to 

 match trim- preferable in appearance to those of stained, reinforced 

 cement. 



Hidden Stair. 



My business office had an outside entrance, and connected with 

 the boudoir suite by a hidden stair of quaint design revealed in the 

 wainscot on pressure of a secret spring. This stair opened into a 

 closet on the floor above, with invisible lock and hinges and secure 

 fastenings. 



Detached Fireproof Den. 



Separated from the house by an enclosed tiled court of less than 

 a dozen feet in width, but adjoining the office, was a fireproof den 

 of iron, cement and terra cotta construction, electrically protected 

 at all outlets and with iron barred and shuttered windows. 



Dining Room. 



A dining room of generous size made possible a large breakfast 

 bay across whose over beam at entrance was drawn a portiere and 

 here knight and ladye sat at a real "round table." The ceiling was 

 crossed with six heavy beams and side walls were wainscoted to the 

 ceiling in square panels of quartered oak. 



Fruit and game pictures were tabu, but in a light that best 

 suited it hung our "Jungfrau." The oak trim was that indefinable 

 shade of faded gray made by sand, sun, and wave, as seen in some 

 storm-tossed bit of beach wreckage. Two doors connected dining 

 room and butler's pantry, each with an inset of six by six inch 

 translucent glass, one fitted with rim-protected dish shelves on pantry 

 side. Swinging on a pivot, dishes could be swerved to either room, 

 and service shelves between pantry and kitchen operated in like 

 manner. 



The butler's pantry cupboard had sliding doors with curved 

 upper muntins, shelves of varied width and height, with drawers 

 beneath the working shelf, and storage lockers to ceiling. The 

 radiator was in the form of a shelved plate warmer. 



The Loggia. 



One loggia practically open on three sides had ten glass doors 

 which were replaced with screens in summer, a fireplace opening ten 

 feet wide, roughly forged and hammered iron andirons, and fire tools 

 six feet high. The floor of bricks laid narrow side up in geometrical 

 design on a four foot deep tar protected cement foundation suitably 

 underdrained sloped toward a manhole. Dry cement was dusted 

 between the bricks, and hose turned on it, after which every vestige 

 of cement was immediately scrubbed from the surface which was 

 then left to dry and harden. 



