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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 19 13 



End of the living-room, showing entrance to the hall 



beautiful background for exceedingly 

 mahogany furniture. 



The full architectural and decorati 

 enclosed loggias at the ends of the 

 realized when one views them from 

 the garden front. Placed as wings 

 and at right angles to the main struc- 

 ture, they greatly extend the breadth 

 of the house and by their broad 

 horizontal dimensions they add ma- 

 terially in emphasizing the low 

 broad aspect of the building. One 

 of the loggias opens from the li- 

 brary, and forms a living-room 

 which becomes semi-out-of-doors 

 during the Summer, when its win- 

 dows open at either side upon lawn 

 and terrace, and which just as 

 easily may become a Winter garden 

 flooded with sunshine during the 

 bleak months when a spot of this 

 kind arranged with rugs and grow- 

 ing palms may be so attractive. An- 

 other loggia opens from the dining- 

 room and its possibilities as a Sum- 

 mer dining-room may be readily ap- 

 preciated. 



The space between the two 

 loggias and the house itself becomes 



graceful and simple a kind of courtyard, elevated above the surrounding lawn 



and enclosed by a retaining wall of stone against which is 



ve importance of the banked a riotous profusion of flowering plants. This little 



house is more fully courtyard and its surrounding terrace is one of the most 



beautiful examples of careful plan- 

 ning known. 



At the center and directly before 

 the house, there is a shallow pool 

 edged about with brick, where white 

 or purple Lilies and their broad 

 leaves float lazily beneath the Sum- 

 mer's sun. Brick paths enclose 

 squares of grass clipped to a velvety 

 green and low edging of box en- 

 closes borders filled with every 

 variety of floral magnificence. 



To heighten the Italian effect of 

 courtyard and terrace, old terra 

 cotta oil jars are placed at intervals 

 upon the low retaining wall, tall 

 conical bay trees grow in wooden 

 tubs and the windows which open 

 from the loggias upon the brick 

 floors of the terrace are framed in 

 with strands of living green which 

 reach from the ground and twine 

 about the carved rams' heads which 

 lend an added note of Italian an- 

 The living-room tiquity to the various surroundings. 









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