October, iqn 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



347 



The library, showing entrances each side of the fireplace, into the living-room 



feet high what might otherwise be made a rather common- knocker. At either side are bay trees, and tall slender 



place detail becomes the means of adding a note of strength evergreens planted against the walls and in the angles of the 



and dignity to its surroundings. building contribute to the highly distinguished effect. 



The highly picturesque exterior of the house is due partly Upon passing the main entrance with its arched hood and 



to its size and partly to the effective arrangement which iron knocker, one enters a small square entrance-hall where 



emphasizes the main entrance to the house and distributes to the left are placed the main stairway and the corridor 



its bulk symmetrically, but chiefly to the placing at either which leads directly to the service part of the house and 



end of the house an enclosed loggia which increases greatly just ahead one steps down into a great broad living-room, 



the apparent size of the structure. The walls themselves where, upon one side, there are three casement windows 



are of gray rough cast stucco with trimming of ivory and which open directly upon the brick-flagged terrace which is 



blinds which are painted dark green at some of the win- one of the chief characteristics of the house. At the far 



It is not often that a country home possesses an en- end of the living-room there is the fireplace with its old 



trance more beautiful and distinguished than that which is 

 the chief doorway of this White 

 Plains home. The elevated plat- 

 form from which it opens and the 

 steps which lead up to it are of brick 

 laid in white mortar. Over the 

 doorway itself is placed an arched 

 hood, paneled within and supported 

 upon corbels which are also paneled. 

 The semi-circular space against the 

 wall and within the hood is filled 

 with a fragment of wrought iron of 

 rich black which is strongly silhou- 

 etted against the gray of the stucco 

 over which it is placed. Just below 

 is the door itself which is also pan 



eled, and which bears a heavy iron 



Italian mantle — open timbers support the ceiling and the 



walls are covered with grass cloth 

 from Japan, which, with its rich 

 rough texture, supplies a wonderful 

 background for whatever may be 

 hung against it. 



A study of the floor diagrams will 

 show the relative position of library 

 and dining-room upon either side of 

 the living-room, and so connected by 

 doorways at either side of the chim- 

 ney breast, that the three rooms be- 

 come one long suite. The walls of 

 the library are faced with paneled 

 wood of a dark tone, and in the din- 

 ing-room walls very simply paneled 



The dining-room 



and painted, a deep ivory creates a 



