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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1913 



der, done by the artist, and th 

 other bedroom hangings are 



The great brick, fireplace 

 with the old print of George 

 Washington above it, and 

 the old spinning-wheel, an 

 heirloom in the family, take 

 us right back to Ye Olden 

 Dayes, and we want to sit 

 right down beside the fire 

 and watch something delect- 

 able cooking in the black 

 iron kettle hanging over the 

 flames. The ceilings are 

 beamed in both living- and 

 dining-rooms; also large liv- 

 ing-porch directly back of 

 the dining-room. 



All of the woodwork is of 

 dark oak, and the owner de- 

 signed and built much of the 

 furniture himself, as the 

 dining table and deep 

 leather-seated chairs, all the 

 porch furnishings, including 

 the rustic table and swinging 

 seat and the electric lighting 

 fixtures and stained glass 

 shades, throughout the entire 

 house. 



Over the cabinets in the 

 dining-room, directly under 

 the windows, are concrete 

 tops, with concrete flower 

 pots slightly sunken in them, 

 so there is no danger of 



peep ff/wn 



The fireplace end of the living-room 



e dainty window curtains and water running over and staining the handsome furniture, 

 carefully stenciled to match. Long French windows separate the dining-room from 



the large square living-porch 

 with its comfortable swing- 

 ing bedcouch and big hos- 

 pitable chairs. 



Each sleeping chamber 

 has a large closet, and a 

 glimpse of one room with 

 window seat is shown in pic- 

 ture, with curtains strewn 

 with soft yellow daffodils so 

 real one almost wants to 

 stoop to pick them. 



A view is shown of the 

 study upstairs in one photo- 

 graph, and here another 

 unique feature is introduced. 



A large study table with 

 a reading lamp has been ar- 

 ranged by a heavy oak top 

 piece fastened over the top 

 of the stairway, high enough 

 to be out of the way of one's 

 head in coming upstairs and 

 yet just the right height for 

 a study table as is shown by 

 the high-backed chair drawn 

 close beside it. 



This room is very large 

 and quaint with its rather 

 low ceilings, and could easily 

 be remodeled into two or 

 three bedrooms if desired. 



The kitchen is all in white 

 Diagram of the house and grounds and blue — the lower part of 



