AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



The carriage entrance is on the 

 north. Here is a great square pergola, 

 a stately arbor with Doric columns and 

 low rounded archways in the center of 

 two sides the house forming the fourth 

 side for the driveways, which in the 

 central space are bounded by octagonal 

 lines enclosing a circle on which stands 

 a sun dial. The pergola is now well 

 covered with vines, but it has quite 

 unusual stateliness of design. Its base 

 is entirely surrounded with a thick- 

 growing hedge of privet. The entrance 

 porch to the house is small and low, 

 "ASHFORD "-GARDEN STEPS. two Doric columns supporting a finely 



modeled entablature and pediment. Built-in seats on either side are suggestive of pleasant 



hospitality. The other parts of the front are thoroughly restrained, the windows plainly set 



in simple frames, so that the severe cornice is the chief relief of the upper wall. There are 



four dormers in the pointed roof, the outer ones with two windows, the central pair with one. 



The severity of this front, therefore, heightens the effect of the splendid pergola in a thoroughly 



legitimate way. 



The elements in the design of the south front are very similar, although the treatment 



is essentially different. Two great pedimented porticoes project from the ends of this front, 



each with four Doric columns on the front and two on the sides porticoes quite grandiose in 



scale, and yet very thoroughly 



harmonized with the building 



to which they are attached. 



A trellised porch or pergola 



connects them just before the 



house, which, above the center, 



swells into a bay window. In 



the center of the garden space 



between the porticoes is a 



delicious fountain, by Frederick 



Macmonnies. 



The general character of 



the interior is dominated by 



a true Colonial feeling without 



any regard for archaic effect. 



"ASHFORD" THE MACMONNIES FOUNTAIN. 



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