AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



one's friends, and engage in such rural sports and undertakings as a man of wealth and 

 culture might naturally be interested in. 



Mr. Breese has built regardless of space, and in a manner that is best described as ample. 

 The main building contains but two rooms a music-room and a library, separated by a wide 

 entrance or general hall. Beyond these is a rear hall, running the full length of the house and 

 connecting the two main wings ; on the right is the studio, with a squash court beyond ; on the 

 left, the dining-room, breakfast-room, and kitchen, with servants' quarters still farther out. 

 Each of these latter buildings is recessed still farther away from the central axis, so that the 

 rear of the building surrounds a great court, open at the farther side and enclosed on the three 

 others. 



Hospitality and livability are the dominant qualities of this house". Mr. Breese has erected 

 a place that may, in many senses since it is very wonderful and wonderfully interesting be 

 called a "show place"; yet he 

 has been quite indifferent to 

 splendor in his search for 

 comfort, convenience, and the 

 pleasure of living in a pleasant 

 house. His rooms are delight- 

 ful; low ceiled, agreeably col- 

 ored, tastefully decorated and 

 furnished, almost completely, 

 with genuine old mahogany 

 pieces picked up by himself, 

 mostly in the South. 



The color schemes may be 

 briefly summarized. Music- 

 room pale green silk hangings 

 and wall paper, white India 

 rugs, and white (polar) bear 

 skins; main hall all white 

 paneling, dark red India rug; 

 library light brown hangings 

 and paper, green India rug; 

 rear hall wainscoted below, 

 reproductions of old Colonial 

 landscape wall paper above, in 

 delightful cool gray tones; 

 dining-room white panels to 

 the ceiling, blue decorations, <THE ORCHARD" WALL FOUNTAIN. 



