AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



the second story, upheld in the center by a huge swelled column. The room has a battened 

 wainscoting and a beamed ceiling, and an ingle-nook, with fireplace and built-in seats, paved 

 with reddish tiles. 



The dining-room is on the opposite side of the hall, the front space being filled with 

 a conservatory. The battened wainscoting rises to a high plate rack. China closets are 

 built into two of the corners, and the mantelpiece has facings of Welsh tiles. The space 

 between the dining-room and the lil^rary on the front of the house is partly filled with the 

 reception-room, which is beautifully finished in white, and a charming little porch, which gives 

 access to the hillside immediately below. 



"Chateau Rexsamer," the House of Mrs. George W. Rexsamer, 



at Elizabethtown, New York. 



"Chateau Rexsamer," at EHzabethtown, New York, is a house of quite unique interest. 

 It is built on a steep mountain side in the Adirondack Mountains, on a site so irregular 

 that only an unusual plan and an 

 unusual construction were possible. 

 The site conditions were so diffi- 

 cult that no stairs are inside the 

 main building; the living-room is 

 above the guest chambers, and 

 the dining-room is above the 

 kitchen and ice-house. The house, 

 which is btiilt of stone with a 

 stucco superstructtire, is in two 

 parts, connected with an open 

 stairway. The floor upon which 

 the living-room and two owner's 

 bedrooms are situated is level 

 with the ground at the rear of 

 the house. The mountain, in fact, 

 rises so precipitously from the 

 walls of the building that the 

 only view of the sky from this 

 portion is through the dormers 

 of the roof. On this floor the 

 famil}^ live, and from the open 

 parts of its surrounding porch in 

 clear weather they can enjoy the "CHATEAU REXSAMER. 



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