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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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There is something thoroughly homelike in the aspect of such a house as this, a well-designed example of the cottage type 



A New Jersey House and Garden 



By William T. Phillips 



T is a pleasure to come upon a small house 

 well-planned and of excellence in design that 

 has not had its size determined by the 

 limitations of the plot of ground whereon it 

 is built, but which, instead, has ample 

 grounds around it. Of course, one would 



not call the house here illustrated a very small house as the 



small houses of to-day run, for the nine 



rooms shown on the first and second floor 



plans and the rooms of the roof story are 



sufficiently generous in measurement, as 



a glance at the reproduction of a photo- 

 graph of the living-room on this page 



will indicate. While one wishes this 



beautiful house might have had an ex- 



tension to the left to balance that upon the right to perfect 

 its proportion, it is thoroughly attractive as it stands. This 

 house was designed for its owner, the Reverend N. S. 

 Stevens, by A. F. Norris, architect, New York, and it is 

 situated in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. The spot chosen 

 for the house was a happy selection, and the garden which 

 surrounds it is one of the most beautiful in a neighborhood 

 singularly replete with those finished 

 house and grounds achievements, which 

 make the town famous and envied. 

 Indeed this garden won in competition 

 one of the cups which was offered and 

 awarded by the Citizens' Committee of 

 Montclair for the finest gardens in the 

 vicinity of her rare and noteworthy types. 



A corner of the garden 



First and second floor plans 



A view of the living-room 



