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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 19 13 



The house of Mr. S. W. Linington, Short Hills, New Jersey 



A Successful Suburban Home 



By Helen Wethrell 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



HE house of half timber construction here 

 illustrated, the home of Mr. S. W. Lining- 

 ton of Short Hills, New Jersey, designed by 

 Arthur Ware, architect, New York, is an ex- 

 ample of a thoroughly successful suburban 

 home. Fortunate, indeed, was the choice 



of its site, to which the architect fit 

 his design, but aside from these 

 points the judicious arrangement of 

 vines and Evergreens has done much 

 to add to the attractiveness of the 

 premises, as a comparison of the 

 reproductions of the illustrations 

 on these two pages will show. 



The garden of the Linington 

 home is one of the finest gardens in 

 New Jersey. It is so laid out that 



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it becomes almost a part of the house itself and is not 

 merely an isolated planting area. The mistress of the 

 house has brought this garden to perfection by the loving 

 care and attention she has bestowed upon its development. 

 Here one will find all the beautiful old-fashioned flowers 

 that are so dear to the heart of everyone. When Summer 



has flown the well-placed Evergreens 

 relieve the house from any appear- 

 ance of bareness and the branches 

 of trees and shrubs cast their 

 shadows in decorative pattern upon 

 the white blanket which snowtime 

 spreads over the garden. 



As one enters the house from the 

 porch by the porte cochere he finds 

 a wide doorway to the right open- 

 ing into the living-room, in the 



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