AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



a sjiecial character to this most interesting house. The doorways are quite monumental in 

 design — round arched portals with double columns, sui)i)orting an entablature which carries 

 a l)alustrade, forming the central balcony. The detail here is very l)eautiful and in l)rillianl 

 contrast with the sobriety with which the adjoining walls are finished. The loggias are the 

 chief distinction of the house and its most conspicuous ornament. They stand one at each 

 end of the garden front. The\' are identical in design, one story high, with three arches on the 

 side and a projecting ba}- on the front. The arches are plainly cut, without moldings, l)ut 

 have large car\'ed keystones and festooned spandrels. The walls are trellised in formal ])atterns 

 with large ui)])cr ovals, and the windows have elal)orately designed fanlights in the arches 



THE LOGGIA. 



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