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asbestos covered. The space under awninged platform, which will 

 cross the entire front of the dwelling as well as the west porch, 

 could be utilized for an 83-foot bowling alley, with loop-the-loop 

 return groove (if of glass it would neither sag nor warp). It must 

 be well windowed at front and ends, connect with lavatory and 

 shower, and have an exterior entrance. The billiard room placed in 

 the basement to insure an immovable spirit-level foundation can be 

 floored with scagliola, have fireplace sided with stone settles, large 

 windows, and plastered walls of sand finish, appropriately calcimined. 



The west porch-room, duplicating the east in size, may be 

 arranged for enclosing either with wire screen or glass as season 

 of the year dictates, floor of red cement marked off in 24-inch squares, 

 and fireplace and chimney breast of lichen-covered cobble stones, topped 

 above roof with brick. At one side of the fireplace build a porch 

 closet for wraps, books and toys. Rooms may be wainscoted to a 

 height of seven feet with wall area above plate rack burlapped, painted 

 and stenciled, the ceiling of cement on wire lath stained Pompeiian 

 red, and crossed by two large ebonized beams. French casements 

 connect with the pergola. 



The porte cochere, which for convenience will connect with the 

 east wing, might have its outer end sheltered by a windowed, settled 

 and fireplaced coachman's nook or ombra in whose exterior wall is a 

 Pompeiian drinking fountain. Rust-proof metal lanterns set high 

 above carriage top flank the sides of the stop-draught entrance. Arriv- 

 ing guests peered down upon by repellent, rabid-mouthed, grotesquely 

 molded gargoyles may on occasion be warmly welcomed by glow- 

 ing, sputtering logs. 



The east porch-room, strictly an entrance, twelve by eighteen 

 feet, reached by three steps cut from a single block of granite, a true 

 century wearer, is fitted with sash-hung windows, to be com- 

 pletely glassed in and heated in inclement weather. The centre 

 walk to the front door may be built five feet wide, of red quarry tile, 

 laid slightly convex, with half-inch white joints and the space on 

 each side filled with plants set in mossy banks sloping upward to 

 the top of the two-foot stone foundation. Drooping ferns, orchids, 

 Southern mosses and Southern birds would give both color and 

 life to such an entrance porch. Centreing the flare of the over-door- 

 way can be inset shield or head and in recognition of the custom of 

 the centuries a motto traced in the door sill. 



The lintel over a single seven by nine foot door whose wide open 

 swing proclaims hospitality can be finished at the ends with carved 

 griffin heads. 



Siding the entrance, with halberd close gripped, stands as warder 

 a full suit of armor whose former owner possibly crossed swords 

 with the Saracen. 



