AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



a plentiful foliage of native grass and wild flowers. A spaciovts terrace has been cleared 

 before the house, and beautifully planted with shrubs and flowers— a true garden spot, set 

 among wild surroundings. 



The house is a long, low, ramljling structure, rough-cast, with exposed timbers; very 

 varied as to heights and roofs, quite unsymmetrical in the disposition of its parts, yet full of 

 a character and charm that pervades and harmonizes the whole and renders it a very interesting 

 bit of design. It is, in point of fact, a group of buildings, homogeneously joined together in 

 a single stmcture, each part with a distinct purpose and an individual form. The residence 

 portion of the house occupies the center of the group. It is two stories in height, with two 

 bay windows as its leading feature, and a high pointed roof, with a gable surmounting one bay 

 window, and a dormer the other. To the left is the music-room, which has a wing to itself, 

 and on the right are the servants' quarters, with the stable on the far end. The entrance front, 

 therefore, is composed of various elements, each with its own particular use— and to this fact 

 it owes its wide extent and undeniable interest. 



The house is entered through the great hall, which fills the center from front to front, 

 and opens at the farther end on to the terrace at the back. It has a beamed ceihng and a paneled 



"CRAIGSTON" THE TERRACE FRONT. 



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