AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



present as many of them as possible. Hence the dining-room is placed at the extremity of 

 the main building, and has three open sides, all giving upon the water. It is enclosed on 

 the end with a great porch with a curved center. This porch is so close to the edge of the 

 rock as to almost overhang it, and thus, with its adjoining room, has a position of quite 

 unusual beauty. 



On the main front — the land front — the house is entered through a spacious vestibule 

 which immediately adjoins the porte-cochere. This in turn opens into a great hall, reaching 

 wholly across the front from end to end. On the right is a doorway to the drawing-room; in 

 the center is a corridor leading to the dining-room. On the right of this corridor are the library 

 and the den; on the left, pantries and service-rooms, with the kitchen beyond. The arrange- 

 ment of the rooms is entirely logical and quite compact, notwithstanding the considerable floor 

 area over which they are dis- 

 posed. 



Apart from the interest 

 which attaches to this house 

 as a very stately, gracious and 

 refined piece of architecture, is 

 the still greater interest that 

 arises from its surroundings. 

 The estate is a unit. The archi- 

 tects who planned and designed 

 the house also planned and 

 designed the grounds. A single 

 mind permeates the whole, 

 house, gardens, subsidiary build- 

 ings, walks, fountains, decora- 

 tions. It is an interesting study 

 in house designing, with the 

 grounds and surroundings in 

 perfect harmony with the dwell- 

 ing. It would seem that, so far 

 as is possible, this house and 

 garden is a work of art. Nature 

 is here called upon to do her 

 loveliest, and in the fine natural 

 scenery of the locality that did 

 not seem a difficult task. The 

 architects were called upon to 

 give of their best thought, and THE pergola AS SEEN FROM THE house. 



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