January, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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The beautiful terrace-roofed piazza leading from the den and from the living-room at the west end of the house, is one of sterling dignity 
afford a flood of light to the interior, and although French placed and give emphasis to the pleasing symmetry of the 
windows are here combined with others they are all kept 
harmonious in their proportions and the same in design. 
The windows of the upper 
floor form an unbroken 
line, one of the best ex- 
amples of successful fenes- 
tration in a house of this 
sort which the writer has 
seen. The loggia and per- 
gola extend the apparent 
width of the house, and the 
roof, with its careful re- 
straint of line, completes the 
design of this distinctly indi- 
vidual and beautiful country- 
house. 
The area covered by the 
house is so ample that all 
service quarters are arranged 
upon the two main floors. 
This makes unnecessary the 
use of the garret space for 
service quarters, and this has 
enabled the architects to de- 
sign the broad low-pitched 
roof of unbroken horizontal 
lines seen from the south 
front of the house. The roof 
of the north front of the 
house is less formal in its 
plan. The chimneys are well 
designed and suggest those 
the traveler in Umbria con- 
stantly sees throughout the 
countryside. They are well 
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Detail of the pillars of the spacious piazza at the north end of the house 
roof, whose amply broad overhang affords deep soffts, up 
to which the shuttered windows of the second floor extend. 
From the portico on the 
north, one enters the house 
through a vestibule, coming 
intoahall. Directly in front, 
doorways lead to the living- 
room and to the dining- 
room, with a doorway to the 
den directly on the right, and 
the stairway and entrance to 
the service-wing upon the 
left. A good-sized lavatory 
occupies the space under the 
stairway, and is reached by 
a couple of descending steps. 
The entire plan of the house 
shows the careful thought 
given to the matter of utiliz- 
ing every square foot of 
space by the architects, who 
have shown good taste and 
ingenuity in their task, for, 
after all, one is not confused 
by innumerable turnings and 
twistings and _ unexpected 
doors and passageways. [The 
entire plan is what one might 
term straightforwardly ob- 
vious and harmoniously sim- 
ple. The large living-room, 
occupying the southeast cor- 
ner of the house, is thoroughly 
homelike, as a living-room 
ought to be, and, like the 
