AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



adapted td the exigencies of modern life. The entrance front is quite irregular, with a great 

 square tower for the stairs, and a projecting wing with a bay window for the bilhard-room. 

 A stone porch, battlemented hke a tower, is prefixed to the entrance doorway. The ter- 

 race front is more regular, with two gabled wings projecting from either end of the center, 

 each treated alike with rectangular bay windows in the first story, and plainly finished, but 

 not the less pleasing, gables in the third story. 



The interior is thoroughly harmonious and admirably planned. A vestibule leads 

 directly to the hall, which occupies the entire center of the house. The stairs are 

 immediately to the right, within their own tower, but forming a part of the hall furnishings. 

 The hall itself has a paneled wainscoting and a beamed ceiling, the panels of which are deco- 

 rated with rich geometric design. To the left is the reception-room, finished in the Louis XV. 

 style. The living-room, which is also entered from the hall, adjoins it, and occupies one of 

 the wings overlooking the terrace. The woodwork is painted white, the walls marked off with 

 pilasters, with built-in bookcases. 



In the corresponding position on the opposite side of the hall is the dining-room. It 

 has a paneled wainscoting in quartered oak. The bay window on the terrace front serves 

 as a conservatory. The butler's pantry and a passage, the latter connecting with an alcove 

 opening into the hall, connect the dining-room with the kitchen, which, with its allied rooms, 

 fills an outer wing. The billiard-room, which completes the^list of apartments on the ground 

 floor, is finished with mahogany. It has a paneled wainscoting and a beamed ceiling. With 

 the exception of the kitchen wing, the whole house, beginning with the entrance porch and 

 continued around to the opposite side, is surrounded with a terrace, built of stone and enclosed 

 within a balustrade. It is a fine and effective feature, quite in keeping with the architecture 

 of the building, and is the most striking external element of the house, adding greatly to the 

 dignity of its appearance. 



"Ashford," the House of Frank Squier, Esq., at Belle Haven, 



Greenwich, Connecticut. 



The beautiful house of Mr. Frank Squier, at Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut, is 

 a charming and poetic design by Mr. Wilson Evre, Jr. It is placed on the crest of a knoll in 

 rolling country, well wooded. It is a fine stud}- in Colonial architecture adapted to modem 

 uses, a building permeated, indeed, with tvixe Colonial feeling, very beautifully detailed, very 

 simple and direct in its composition, liut quite modern also, good to look upon, and thoroughly 

 comfortable and delightful to live in. It is a long rectangle in plan, with a kitchen wing that 

 continues the main axis. It is built of wood, painted white, with blue -green shutters — a simple 

 color scheme of unsurpassed merit. The longer fronts face the north and the south, and each 

 gives upon so pleasant a prospect that the terms "garden front" and "entrance front" are 

 ignored in the nomenclature of the house. 



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