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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Upon the upper floor of 

 the house the arrange- 

 ment is that which obtains 

 in every well-ordered 

 country home and here 

 the unusual breadth of the 

 house makes possible the 

 placing of all bedrooms so 

 that they face the court- 

 yard and terrace. The 

 number of bedrooms for 

 servants which the home 

 contains is increased by 

 others which are placed in 

 the garage which, as has 

 been said, is built close by 

 the house itself. 



It would be difficult to 

 imagine a country home 

 of greater beauty and re- 

 finement than this beauti- 

 ful place, settled beneath 

 its old trees and sur- 

 rounded by its broad ex- 

 panse of lawn. Viewed 

 from any direction the 

 house presents a wonder- 

 ful example of consistent 

 and careful planning and 

 an attention to the many 

 tiny details of designing, 

 furnishings and arrange- 

 ment of plants and shrub- 

 bery which contribute so 

 largely to the successful 

 result of the entire estate. 



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wall which encloses the 

 terrace and separates it 

 from the surrounding 

 lawn. 



With the rooms for 

 servants and also the vari- 

 ous domestic departments 

 placed in a wing to them- 

 selves and somewhat 

 apart from the house 

 itself, the mechanism of 

 the estate is concealed and 

 screened from being un- 

 duly in evidence. 



Much of the interest of 

 Mr. Kjerr's country home 

 is due to the skill with 

 which the architects who 

 planned the residence and 

 its furnishings have chosen 

 just the spot upon the 

 grounds where it seems 

 that the house should be 

 placed. One enters the 

 estate through a gateway, 

 designed in the tasteful 

 and simple Italian villa 

 style in which the house 

 itself is built and the 

 carriage drive which 

 winds through the grounds 

 ends in an old fashioned 

 circle before the main en- 

 trance. Just at hand is 

 also the entrance to the 

 service yard upon which 



Plans of the Kerr house 

 Seen upon a day in the Summer or the early Autumn the opens the garage, both the garage and its surroundings 

 terrace or garden front of the house presents a vision of being enclosed, as has been said, by a high wall. The 

 beauty never to be forgotten. The space just outside the placing of these necessary service quarters in this some- 

 long French windows of the living-room is flagged with what unusual position has resulted in a rather quaint and 

 brick; just beyond lies the shallow pool with its wealth of picturesque effect and has made it possible to place the sur- 

 Summer vegetation and a flight of brick steps descend from roundings upon the other sides of the house without refer- 

 the terrace to the lawn where a great variety of old fash- ence to the minor buildings which so often interfere with the 

 ioned hardy plants are banked against the stone of the stone carefully arranged plans for the grounds of a countryhome. 



Entrance front of the Kerr house 



