NOVEL SPRING HOUSES 



en trance- way, with only the broad doors showing 

 through the picturesque tangle of vines and 

 shrubbery. 



The more stately spring houses of the modern 

 country seat are redeemed from undue "newness" 

 when the spring which they are designed to shelter 

 has an outlet near stately old trees wide-spreading 

 elms, or willows, or grand -old buttonwoods, that have 

 stood for a century or more. 



In point of cost, the perfectly appointed dairy 

 on the estate of J. Ledyard Blair, Esq., at "Blairs- 

 den," in Bernardsville, New Jersey, greatly excels 

 the average structure devoted to this purpose. The 

 thick stone walls display their use, however, in in- 

 creased coolness for the interior. The picturesque 

 chimney and the massive pillars of field stone, like 

 the walls, produce the charm of local color. 



The; section of the beautiful H. J. Verner estate, 

 at Bryn Mawr, that has been devoted to the 

 dairy, might well be described as a spot full of nat- 

 ural suggestions which have been developed in a 

 strikingly individual manner. Here, on an even more 

 pronounced scale, is shown the delight in local color, 

 in the typical setting of woodland shelter and rocky 

 slope in the background, and green meadows with 

 sparkling streams in the foreground. Here the field- 

 stone construction is hidden during the summer by 



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