August, 1905 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



101 



"Crow's Nest" — The Living and Dining Rooms 



Here, then, is a very simple dwelling, unpretentious in its 

 structure and its development, yet a very charming house to 

 live in and amply equipped with every essential convenience. 

 The design is an extremely happy one for the situation, the 

 house and the site having that direct relationship to each 

 other which characterizes every good house, and which, when 

 combined with fine artistic treatment, as in this instance, 

 sums up about all the requirements that can be demanded of 

 a dwelling house. 



Apart from the plan and the arrangement the qualities of 

 this house which particu- 

 larly call for consideration, 

 and which most decidedly 

 assert themselves, are its 

 picturesqueness and its 

 charm. The surroundings 

 are, of course, picturesque 

 in the extreme, that is the 

 fortunate characteristic of 

 the locality in which 

 " Crow's Nest " is built. It 

 would have been a misfor- 

 tune — an artistic calamity 

 — had this delightful set- 

 ting been ignored in the de- 

 sign of the exterior. The 

 picturesque was, therefore, 

 forced upon the architect as 

 the basis of the architectural 

 expression at the very be- 

 ginning; and, as the illus- 

 trations very happily show, 

 this was followed to the end. 



The charm of the house 

 is also due to this circum- 

 stance. The picturesque is 

 always charming and 

 always interesting. An 

 architect with a keen sense 

 of the value of the pictur- 



esque could not have made 

 a failure of his design if 

 given full swing for the 

 display of his talent at the 

 outset. This undoubtedly 

 happened in this case, and 

 hence the artistic success of 

 this little house was assured 

 at the commencement of the 

 work. 



But the house is pictur- 

 esque within as well as with 

 This is another quality quite 

 indispensable in a dwelling 

 of this sort, and which fol- 

 lows from such an exterior 

 as a matter of course. It is 

 not always possible to make 

 an interior correspond with 

 the exterior in style or in 

 treatment. It is not only 

 not always possible to do so, 

 but in many cases — perhaps 

 in most cases — it is q uite 

 out of the question to ac- 

 complish such a result. The 

 interior necessarily differs 

 from the exterior, for the 

 latter is but a sheathng and 

 a cover to the former. 

 There are times, however, when a certain kind of an ex- 

 terior suggests and calls for a certain kind of an interior, and 

 " Crow's Nest " is precisely one of these. The interior 

 rooms, their shape, size, arrangement and furnishing, are 

 exactly what might be looked for in a dwelling built and 

 placed as this one is. In this respect the house is quite re- 

 markable and worthy of more study and attention than it 

 might, judged by its size and purpose, receive. 



Mr. Ernest M. A. Machado, architect, 9 Cornhill Street, 

 Boston, Mass. 



" Crow's Nest " — A Rear View 



