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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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The Linington house some years ago, before the planting had advanced 



centre of which is a great fire-place, on either side of which 

 French doors open upon a piazza. Across the hall the 

 entrance to the dining-room is so arranged that breadth 

 and sense of spaciousness is emphasized as one looks from 

 either room through the hall into the other. One of the 

 best features of the house is the placing of the sunroom 

 so it may be entered from the hall, the living-room or the 

 dining-room. The service part of the house occupies a 

 wing by itself. 



The second floor of the Linington house is remarkably 

 compact in arrangement, but in no sense crowded. 



The floor has four chambers, three bedrooms, three 

 bath rooms, and nine closets. Opening through a lobby off 

 the hall and over the sitting-room are two large chambers 

 each with a corner fire-place and a window onto the roof of 

 the piazza. A corresponding window opens in one room to 

 the front of the house and in the other room to the rear. 

 The front chamber has a commodious closet diagonally 

 from the fire-place, but the closet belong- 

 ing to the second room opens from the 



lobby directly outside the door of the bathroom, which is 

 at the end and has a large window looking on the roof of 

 the sunroom. Adjoining the front chamber closet is a 

 closet with a door into the hall and at the end of the hall 

 with two windows opening on the roof of the sunroom is 

 a smaller chamber with closet. Over the dining-room is 

 a large chamber with closet, corner fire-place, and two win- 

 dows, one on the rear of the house and the other on the 

 side. Beyond this chamber, with a long entry from the 

 hall and off of which is the back stairway, are a bathroom 

 and three bedrooms with closets, two rooms with windows 

 on the front of the house, and the other looking on the 

 rear. A third bathroom is just inside the entry way off 

 the hall with a window on the front. The entire house has 

 a great charm that comes from comfort and beauty com- 

 bined. It is a genuine home in every sense, and indisputa- 

 bly one which shows no features calculated to plague the 

 sense of taste. On the whole the general success is not to 

 be laid to any pronounced single effort, 

 which is indeed praise quite sufficient. 



Garden front 



lving-room 



Entrance front 



