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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 19 13 



Terrace side of the house of Dr. E. D. Smith, Woodmere, Long Island, New York 



A Long Island House 



By R. D. Arthur 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



N the home of Dr. Edwin Dudley Smith, of trees, the irregular long gables of roof seem to rise as 

 Woodmere, Long Island, designed by Myron though a part of Nature itself. 



Hunt and Lucian E. Smith, architects, New Set well back from the boulevard, the service portion is 

 York, we find an artistic simplicity. It shows effectively screened from view with hedge and bushes. The 

 an unerring taste for things of beauty and circular path leads to the entrance, which is placed under 

 comfort; furnishings that have character and the overhanging gables and turret. The exterior finish is 



individuality, without being fussy or pretentious, while the dash stucco in a warm mellow cream tone, and the, roof, 



spirit of the entire scheme of 



decoration is of the Modern 



Arts and Crafts School. 



The house is of the English 



type of architecture, which lends 



itself so well to our climatic 



conditions and landscape garden- 

 ing, and we see many of this 



type among the most pleasing of 



our American country homes. 



Here, surrounded by lawns, and 



a beautiful setting of hedge and 



shrubbery, the house forms a 



background in effect, being 



rapidly covered with the vines 



of Boston Ivy, and because of 



the artistic planting of appro- 

 priate' height of bushes and The living-room 



having been left to the weather, 

 is now a silvery green while the 

 window groupings in greenish 

 blue offer a most pleasing color 

 effect, suggesting the beautify- 

 ing mellowing of age and 

 weather. 



Quite different is the effect of 

 the southerly exposed side, 1 

 which are the living-rooms. 

 Here we see the large window 

 of the living-room, the French 

 doors opening on the loggia 

 terrace and window groupings 

 for admitting an abundance of 

 light and sunshine; and finally a 

 view through the formal 

 gardens and across the fields to 



