LAKE PAVILIONS AND TEA ROOMS 



inspiration for garden buildings constructed on a 

 smaller scale. With a close background of shade 

 trees, these water rooms are sometimes left without 

 roofing over the larger space, and only a canopy 

 shelter at the entrance. But the summer-house plan 

 with roof covering the entire structure is the most 

 popular type. 



Among the handsome estates of suburban Phila- 

 delphia, including Germantown, Wyncote, Chestnut 

 Hill, and the Whitemarsh Valley, there are probably 

 more picturesque lake pavilions than in any other 

 part of the country. Where the branches of the his- 

 toric Wissahickon leave the upper section of Fair- 

 mount Park and flow through the estates, no expense 

 has been spared to take advantage of the abundant 

 water supply by establishing spacious garden lakes. 

 For the less favored country seats, where the na- 

 tural water supply is limited, artificial lakes have 

 been formed that rival the natural waterways in 

 beauty. In forming the artificial lakes, provision is 

 usually made for an island of good size. On this the 

 tea-room pavilion is constructed. In some instances 

 the building stands far out from shore, in the centre 

 of the lake, the only means of reaching it being a 

 floating garden in the form of a flower-boxed barge, 

 to be poled out to it. 



A picturesque device for reaching one of these 

 water tea rooms is a rope ferry, with the ropes 



