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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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that no odors of 

 cooking come to it, 

 and the fresh sweet 

 breezes blow through. 

 The living part of 

 the home, where the 

 real housekeeping is 

 done, is in the pretty 

 peaked house which 

 is connected with the 

 windmill by a covered 

 veranda. This house 

 has a large dining- 

 room with a bricked 

 open fireplace, and is 

 lighted by large win- 

 dows on either side of 

 the room. It is hung 

 with pretty chintz, 

 which adds brightness 

 and also keeps the 



Held, Massachusetts, 

 blends well with the 

 quaint structure of 

 the old mill. 



The third building, 

 low and of the bunga- 

 low type, with a 

 peaked roof, is in 

 harmony with both 

 the others. Viewing 

 them as they stand 

 to-day, it is hard to 

 realize that the ar- 

 rangement was not 

 easily accomplished, 

 especially with the 

 latter building, which 

 was twisted and 

 turned many times 

 after it was all built, 

 before the right spot 



The dining-room 



light from streaming in with too much glare. The dining- was found. It was necessary that it should carry out rather 



room, with its old-fashioned dining table and large rag than interrupt the general scheme of rambling growth. 



mat, carries out the scheme idea of the whole house. The porch which connects the mill and the peaked house 



Back of the dining-room is the kitchen, while two good- is one of the most interesting features. Here again the 



sized bedrooms are in the high peaked roof. The building irregularity of the grounds was used to advantage in order 



of these two houses did not allow room enough, as the fam- to heighten the artistic effect, for the little porch has a crook 



ily increased, and so a third house was added. This has in it as it bends itself around the hill. 



settled down at the end of the little row, as if it had always The long traveler, which used to turn the mill top in 



been there. It contains three large bedrooms, and is used the long ago, and the four flappers which have also finished 



principally in the case of an overflow of guests. their active work and are now enjoying a well-earned rest, 



The way in which these three separate buildings are com- give to the whole an unusual touch of picturesqueness. 

 bined to form a unified and pleasing whole, is well worthy of It was not without careful study that these three buildings 



study. The lines are excellent. The odd high peak of the are all left in gray tones. By this I mean the soft gray that 



house, which is in reality a copy of the Old House in Med- comes to buildings with time and weather, giving them an 



The grouping of the old mill and the cottages is unusually picturesque 



