February, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



S3 



The living-room is a great apartment 

 forty-five feet long by thirty-five wide. 

 Six large French windows open upon the 

 terrace veranda and to the porch-room 

 with its black-beamed, red-cemented Pom- 

 peiian ceiling. A lift of four steps 

 leads from the living-room to the spacious 

 library. The living-room also connects 

 with the dining-room which is unusual in 

 form and size as the plan will indicate. 

 This room is twenty-two by forty feet in 



View from one of the large windows 



size. The central hall of the second story 

 is over thirty feet square, inclusive of the 

 stair opening. One of the pleasantest 

 features in the planning of this section of 

 the house is to be found in the arrange- 

 ment of the stairs leading to the third 

 story. Instead of the stereotyped plan 

 of an open well hole from the basement 

 to the attic, the stairs leading up from the 

 second story are placed to one side of the 

 top of the first flight, under an archway. 



is admirably knitted to its site and in thorough keeping with the natural beauty of the shore 



