AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



On a pleasant knoll, not far off and shaded by trees, is a great semicircular seat, and 

 just before it is a white rei^roduction of the Diana designed by Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens for 

 the Madison Square Garden tower. 



Roughly speaking, the house consists of three parts. To the right is the kitchen and 

 service department; in the center is the entrance hall, which is L-shaped, enclosing the dining- 

 room on two sides ; to the left is the living-room, a vast apartment which occupies fully a third 

 of the ground floor. 



The hall, by which the house is entered, consists of two parts. One portion of the L is 

 a corridor, which runs directh' through the house; the other, at right angles to the passage, is 

 a large rectangular room containing the stairs to the upper floor. The walls are entirely 

 covered with split bamboos, a novel and interesting surface covering that gives a quiet note of 

 color and quite distinguished texture of surface. The bamboos form the background for 

 a rich collection of objects which this indefatigable collector has gathered from all parts of 

 Europe, but chiefly from Italy and Spain. Arranged against the side wall of the corridor are 

 twisted Spanish carved columns, six in ah, standing in the corners and on each side of the 



THE LIVING-ROOM. 



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