LAKE PAVILIONS AND TEA ROOMS 



and may be carried out in quaint Japanese designs. 

 For the stately lake bouse with round, white columns 

 and foundations of stone-work, a shingle roof in 

 conical or octagon form gives appropriate finish. 



For the small lakes and ponds, the little pavilions 

 and summer-houses should be built stationary, like 

 those of the illustrations. For the large lakes and 

 natural waterways, floating pavilions always pro- 

 vide additional charm and novelty. It is not neces- 

 sary to provide costly contrivances in cables, etc., 

 under the water for automatic guiding, nor is the 

 flower-barge idea necessarily a part of the floating 

 pavilion. There is a decidedly attractive type found 

 at the southern home of Mr. Wade, at Thomasville, 

 Georgia, built to float about or to be propelled in a 

 large lake. This big summer-house on the water is 

 finished with thatched roof and flower boxes on its 

 broad platform, like the lake tea room a,t Santa 

 Barbara; but instead of gliding over the lake bjy 

 means of a hidden cable, it is poled from place to 

 place, when one desires to gather water lilies or to 

 reach the opposite shore of the lake. But for the 

 greater part of the time, it stands anchored at the 

 garden shore of the lake. 



There is an attractive water pavilion on the 

 estate of Mr. W. J. Matheson, at Cocoanut Grove, 

 Florida. It is anchored firmly on the white coral rock 

 foundation the same white rock that walls up the 



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