The House in the Suburbs 
By Robert Leonard Ames 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
sq|HIERE would be difficulty in finding an _ beaches, while its northern shores are heavily wooded, 
la] American city set in surrounding country boldly outlined with bluffs, coves and sheltered harbors, and 
more varied in character than that which to the north of the metropolis stretches the country land of 
encompasses the city of New York within Westchester county, with its picturesque rolling hills stretch- 
a radius of fifty miles. To the south, Staten ing from the Hudson away toward Connecticut, where again 
Island presents an attractive area, now flat, the shore lands, within a short distance of the great city, 
now hilly; to the east, Long Island lends the low lands of attract those home-builders who wish to live near the sea. 
its southern shore, marked by inlets, bays and long sandy Across the Hudson River from New York, New Jersey 
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The attractive half-timber house of Mrs. Presby Bisland, at Bronxville, New York, viewed from the side fronting th 
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