AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



"Mill-Brook," the House of F. King Wainwright, Esq., 



at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. 



"Mill-Brook," Mr. F. King Wainwright's house, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is built 

 on one of the green hillsides which abound in the environs of Philadelphia. The site is sunny, 

 but the house is a quite poetic conception, very admirably carried out. Local field stone forms 

 the fabric of the first story; above, the walls are in half -timber work, the plaster remaining 

 in its natural soft gray color. The shingled roof is stained a dark moss green. A round 

 archway, under a simple shed-like roof, serves as the entrance. It opens from an open court, 

 formed by the main 

 building and by the 

 kitchen wing which pro- 

 jects at right angles 

 from it. The quaint 

 chimney of the latter is 

 quite a marked feature. 

 The plan is some- 

 what irregular, although 

 not at all wanting in 

 convenience nor in logi- 

 cal arrangement. The 

 entrance doorway leads 

 directly into a lobby, 

 from which the hall is 

 entered from one corner. 

 This picturesque apart- 

 ment is paneled with 

 wood, stained a soft 

 brown, to the height of 

 seven feet. The ceiling 

 is beamed. The stairs 

 are on the entrance side 

 dividing ]jart way up. 

 To the left is the library 

 or living-room, which 

 fills the entire end of the 

 house and opens directly 

 on to the end porch, 

 which is overbuilt by «« MILL-BROOK"— THE TERRACE PORCH. 



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