AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



THE PERGOLA OF MRS. RICHARD GAMBRILL. 



with the kitchen in the basement. To the right is the library, a daintily designed room in 

 very light green. Three large rooms on the garden front complete the apartments on this 

 floor. In the center is the salon, exquisitely paneled with ornament in low relief. The living- 

 room on the left is paneled throughout with Italian walnut, with ornaments in subdued gold. 

 The dining-room, on the right, is paneled with pilasters. 



The loggias form open rooms for the summer, but are enclosed for the cold weather. 

 Their lower walls are lined with stone ; above is a frieze, painted by James Wall Finn, of vases of 

 flowers and birds under trellised arbors. A similar design, with many variations, is painted on 

 the ceilings. A light bluish green is the dominant color in these very remarkable and 

 highly individual decorations. 



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Hopedene," the House of Mrs. E. H. G. Slater. 



"Hopedene," the house of Mrs. E. H. G. Slater, is designed in a quiet Italian style, 

 very subdued in treatment, but thoroughly good and homelike in character. The entrance is 

 on the side, with a round roofed porch. The windows of the first story have round arches; 

 those of the second are flat-topped, all quite simply cut in white stone and directly applied to 

 the brick of which the walls are built. The garden front has two symmetrical wings, with 

 a broad terrace between them, enclosed within a balustrade and covered with a wide awning 

 In the center of the second story is a triple window under a great round arch, which lights 

 the stairs in the hall. A semicircular porch in two stories is the central feature of the opposite 

 side, which is supported by a terrace, with balustrades and steps. A very low sloping roof, 

 with low dormers and broadly projecting eaves, covers the building. 



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