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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1905 



with his leisure time by constant 

 personal supervision and a genius 

 for accomplishing things. But the 

 real spirit that puts " Yaddo " 

 apart from many of the splendid 

 country places in America is the 

 personal touch of its makers on 

 every part of it — house and lawns, 

 gardens and woods. 



It is evident that the place is 

 loved for itself as well as for its 

 associations, that both mistress and 

 master regard it as a home, not a 

 show place or one for entertaining 

 guests, though it has become both 

 one and the other through the at- 

 tractive personalities and social 

 genius that preside there. Only a 

 woman aided by a man keen to 

 understand and helpful to suggest 

 could have given this house and 

 estate the original atmosphere one 

 breathes in it. There is no sense of 

 rawness or newness, but an expres- 

 sion of individuality that objects ac- 

 quire which have been worn, like a 

 glove or a slipper. Absorbed in her 



reading and literary work Mrs. Katrina Trask has yet built 

 about her a home that any woman might envy, for it fits her 

 and her husband as only that house can which is the result 

 of personal study, of careful planning from the first 



The Main Road with its Rough Stone Coping Sweeps Around the Lower End of the Lake 



sketches to the stained glass windows in its hall and the 

 andirons on its hearth. It is this slow accretion under minds 

 that understand each other's point of view which makes 

 " Yaddo " so interesting, not the number of its acres nor the 



A Marble Water Nymph is Seated in One of the Pools of the Rock Garden. Fine Sprays of Water are Flung over the Rocks and Ferns 



