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The porch area indicated by the plans of this house is one of its 
special and most agreeable features 
building, both in exterior and interior, apropos of which one 
has but to notice the unobtrusive manner in which the archi- 
tects have worked out the problems of the chimneys. In de- 
signing the shutters, those for the ground floor windows are 
solidly paneled, marked in each upper panel by a quarter- 
moon sunray, while those of the second floor are of the type 
commonly known as blinds. ‘This arrangement is more 
usual in European domestic architecture than in that of 
America. 
With the vast expanse which the elevation of the site 
commanded, it was possible to give each room a distinctive 
outlook of its own—a rare enough but happy plan. There 
are few houses of the proportions of this one that better 
follow the lay of the land, and that seem to ‘‘belong”’ to it. 
Moreover, it receives an abundance of sunlight on every 
side, and it is remarkably well planned for ventilation in 
all seasons. 
No matter how attractive we find a house outwardly, this 
quality only intensifies the suggestion of the charm one ex- 
pects to find within its doors. The entrance-porch already 
referred to has the triangular pediment of its gabled roof 
supported by turned pillars, with seats on either side of the 
single door. Above the porch is a little casement window 
of leaded glass, and trellised vines climb nearly up to it. 
On entering the house one finds the ground floor arranged 
with the same suggestion of straightforward simplicity that 
the exterior presents. First comes a broad hall, containing 
the main stairway. This hall leads at the left into a living- 
room of generous proportions, and upon the right into the 
corridor leading to the service portion of the house, while 
directly ahead to the right of the stairway is the large 
dining-room, opening upon a great canvas-decked porch 
at the rear. 
The restraint shown in designing the exterior detail of 
the house has been repeated with success in planning the in- 
terior, and nowhere will one find an over-emphasis of motifs. 
The living-room, trimmed in quartered oak, has two sets of 
large windows upon opposite sides, and French windows 
either side of the fireplace, opening upon a great veranda 
sixteen by twenty feet, which is screened in summer and 
enclosed in glass throughout the cold season. This is pro- 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 21 
vided with a deep fireplace of fieldstones. It is easy to 
imagine the charm of this out-of-door living-room, with its 
summer setting of hammocks, bamboo chairs, chintz-covered 
cushions and the tea-table; but one also thinks of it as a 
comfortable retreat upon a winter day, with the bright sun- 
shine pouring through its walls of glass, and its rugs and 
furnishings framing in the crackling fire upon the broad 
stone hearth. 
In furnishing a home one is very apt to overlook the 
decorative value of furniture in cane-wicker and bamboo, 
and yet no kind of furniture possesses in so marked a degree 
the advantage of “‘agreeing”’ with any surroundings in which 
it may be placed. If we except rooms furnished in the 
French periods, there is almost no style of decoration which 
would not make a suitable setting for furniture of this 
variety. The out-of-door living-room, which at all seasons 
of the year makes so practical a part of this house, is fur- 
nished very largely with tables, chairs and settees of this 
sort, and they are made even more beautiful by summer 
cushions and coverings of chintz, linen and flowered taffeta, 
and winter fabrics of rep, velour and the like. In several 
rooms of this house are chairs, large and small, of oak or 
walnut, having backs and seats of open canework, and these 
pieces are quite in keeping with the dignified character of 
the house, without interfering in any way with the homelike 
informal feeling which is its chief characteristic. 
The dining-room is, perhaps, the most beautiful room in 
the house. Here the walls are paneled to the ceiling. They 
are finished in ivory white, against which is arranged fur- 
niture in the deep tones of old mahogany. Pictures upon 
such a wall are usually superfluous and often fatal to best 
effects, and here the beauty of the paneling itself supplies 
all the decoration necessary, and the few sidelights, in the 
simplest of Colonial pattern, give just the relief the eye de- 
mands from the white. The color in this beautiful room is 
supplied by the tones of an old Oriental rug. The candle- 
shades and the long straight curtains pushed back from the 
windows, the brick hearth, the brass fitting of the fireplace, 
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The entrance-porch exhibits dignity in the proportions of its design 
