6 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
January, 1912 
Dining-room, showing screened service entrance and entrance to the 
breakfast-room 
spacious den on the northwest corner, connected with it by 
a door, it opens upon a loggia, whose floor is flagged with 
quarries and whose terrace-roof is supported by Doric 
columns, forming an immense outdoor room for Summer 
use, and yet so designed that it is an architectural adornment 
to the house at any time, and never appears to have been 
merely dictated by utility. Glass doors give access to den, 
living-room and dining-room, all in excellent proportion. 
There are generous fireplaces in the den, in the dining-room 
and in the breakfast-room, which opens out of the last 
and occupies the southeast corner of the house, the windows 
of which flood it with morning sunlight. 
The dining-room is one of the finest rooms in the house, 
of goodly proportions and simple dignity and in exquisite 
taste. The white paneled walls are especially noteworthy, 
and the fine pieces of old furniture resting upon the beauti- 
ful rug lend a warmth to the scheme of the room. ‘This 
room is illuminated by side lights and candles, and these 
lights have been carefully placed with reference to securing 
just the proper illumination a room of this sort requires. 
Moreover, this scheme of lighting apparently tends to in- 
crease the size of the room. ‘The service entrance to the 
dining-room has been skillfully worked out, and while giving 
ready access for prompt service, it occupies an unobtrusive 
corner of the room and is concealed by a great three-paneled 
screen. Directly in front of this service door is the long 
butler’s pantry, the door to the right leading past the service- 
stairs into a large kitchen. Beyond this is the laundry, 
while the northeast corner of the service-wing is occupied 
by the service-porch. The cellar runs the length of the 
house and is one of its most carefully planned features, being 
Dining-room, showing entrance to the living-room and closed doorway 
to the hall 
unusually well lighted and well ventilated. One should note 
the clever treatment of the service extension, which has its 
south wall covered with trellis-work, giving it a pergola- 
arbor effect that balances the loggia at the west end of 
the house. 
Few houses of any size have embodied so many excellent 
features as has this one in the plan of its second story, where, 
without any sacrifice to design, the architects have succeeded 
in carrying out a plan that ensures comfort and every con- 
venience both in the family and in the service sections of 
this story. The unusual amount of space at command en- 
abled the architects to provide for all the sleeping-rooms to 
be placed on one floor. Here one finds five large bedrooms 
for the family, all with adjacent baths, and three bedrooms 
in the service-wing. ‘The largest of the sleeping-rooms has 
also a dressing-room forming its suite, and a great open 
fireplace, while its south wall is formed by the semicircle of 
the second-story bay, with five windows. ‘This room, in 
common with all the rooms on the floor, is furnished in 
excellent taste, and the cheeriness of the sleeping-rooms 
lends much charm to the house. From all these rooms one 
commands beautiful views of the surroundings. 
It is fortunate that in the work of the architects of Mr. 
Macy’s house they have had the satisfaction of seeing its 
beauty further enhanced by the good taste that has been 
exercised throughout in the selection and arrangement of 
its furnishings, and that the result has been not only a 
beautiful house upon beautiful lines, but one whose interior 
carries out the promise of its exterior. Here the dignity 
and charm of a country home is complete and satisfying, 
with a beauty which will grow with each passing year. 
The living-room, showing entrance to the hall 
The large sleeping-room, showing circular bay 
