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and seem to be exactly the right thing for a woman's bed- 

 room. The draped dressing-table has a plate glass top and 

 a triple mirror. The couch at the end of the bed is well 

 placed and is an excellent idea, especially in the guestroom. 



The house at Glenclyffe farm is a good type of the 

 American country house of to-day, and is especially interest- 

 ing at this time owing to the revival of interest in brick 

 buildings, and to the fact that it is a remodeled house, the 

 original structure dating back to a period before most of 

 our large country houses were conceived. 



Brick, as a building material, has many advantages in 

 its favor, and its coming to the front again has placed in 

 the hands of the architect another medium of artistic ex- 

 pression. For a period it was under the ban, and the con- 

 tempt for this valuable building material was no doubt 



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fostered by the fact that a poor quality of brick was used, 

 and then painted red and marked off with white paint to 

 represent the mortar joints. But a careful study of old 

 brickwork has brought about a revival interest in brick 

 buildings, and some of our most successful achievements 

 in domestic architecture have been carried out in this sub- 

 stantial material. A brick house when properly construc- 

 ted is warm in Winter and cool in Summer, and although 

 the initial expense may be greater, the upkeep is less, as 

 a brick house does not require the frequent paintings 

 necessitated by a wooden structure to keep it in good condi- 

 tion. Nothing can surpass the beautiful soft, velvety tex- 

 ture of a wall-surface of brick, laid with raked-out mortar 

 joints, and the variety of color to be obtained cannot be 

 realized with any other material. 



The fountain pool is planted with Water Lilies and surrounded by Iris and clumps of Pansies 



