January, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 13 
The broad expanse of the beautiful lawn in front of the house suggests an English bowling-green 
rooms of the second story are large, well ventilated, and 
well lighted. The largest of these chambers, directly over 
the living-room, has a fine Colonial fireplace with a broad 
hearth and wide mantel-shelf, above which is a _ white- 
framed three-section mirror, P rie 
while the furniture of the] 
room is patterned after an- 
tique pieces. Long windows 
on either side of the fireplace’ 
look out over the terraced 
roof of the one-story sun- 
room below, its balustrade 
being brushed by the foliage 
of the nearby trees. ‘This 
room has a bathroom and a 
dressing-room on either side 
of the entrance door, com- 
pleting the suite. Four other 
chambers, another bathroom, 
and a storeroom complete 
the arrangement of this floor, 
above which is the smaller 
top story, containing the 
servants -rooms. 
That this house has been 
built to become a home in the 
fullest sense of the word can- 
not be doubted after a study 
of the plans and a visit to the delightful premises, and 
there is a sense of permanency about its whole arrange- 
ment that one seeks always to find in the dwelling, and 
which, one is glad to note, is coming more and more to be 
an attribute to the homes that are being built by our Ameri- 
can architects for the homemakers of America. 
A sense of breadth, of room—of comfort, in fact—per- 
yades each part, from the broad wings of the building, as 
seen from outside, to the inner details; and this is the true 
spirit of the Colonial, that which we look for in it and 
which contents us when it is present. For we like to think 
of the passing days as leisured, in the suggestion of which 
Plans of the lower and of the second story 
Colonial architecture abounds. In the wide and open hall, 
the level lines throughout, whether in the fireplace facings 
or the proportions of the windows, one finds this sense of 
The impression of a generous and complete domestic 
life the Colonial must ren- 
der, whether the forms are 
imitated in fact or the spirit 
merely kept with enough of 
characteristic detail. 
Outside, the same general 
effect is to be found. The 
grounds give, as already 
noted, a sense of freedom 
by their broad spaces and the 
generous length of green 
lawn—a length undisturbed 
by misplaced shrubbery. At 
the first turning from the 
road, at the gate, the house 
itself is not completely seen, 
but as one advances it soon 
appears across the distance 
of green, and detail after de- 
tail presents itself freshly to 
the sight as one draws nearer. 
An effect gained just here is 
not shown by the illustra- 
tions—that of the curve at 
the extreme end of the lawn. This is secured by bordering 
flower beds, which, without being luxuriant or especially 
prominent, introduce the needed notes of color and convey 
an impression of freedom and recreation, which, by way of 
contrast, gives dignity to the expanse of lawn and at the 
same time relieves any possible monotony. ‘These flower- 
beds are arranged in a crescent curve, the house resting, as 
one might say, upon it. The angle at the right is mostly 
filled by the roadway, which turns here in order to pass 
before the house. On the other side, however, there is 
room for more informal detail, and here are several large, 
venerable and spreading apple trees of great beauty. 
ease. 
