February, 1912 
room a small conservatory opens out upon a broad terrace, 
which terrace leads down a flight of steps to the out- 
buildings. To the right of 
the hall a triangular space 
gives entrance to the dining- 
room, which is diagonal to 
the living-room wing of the 
house, as also are the service 
quarters that complete the 
dining-room wing. 
An inspection of the ac- 
companying plans will show 
with what ingenuity this room 
has been worked out, for the 
whole wing containing it is 
diagonal to the other half of 
the house. The dining-room 
has been worked out as an 
octagon, four sides of which 
have windows that face the 
road and the entrance, or else 
the terrace and the out-build- 
ings beyond and below this. 
The upper floor of the Bis- 
land house contains three family bedrooms, with large bath- 
rooms, and bedrooms in the service quarters. 
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bedrooms are particularly attractive by reason of their size 
and the irregularity which the quaint planning of the house 
makes possible to give them. 
This house is especially in- 
teresting as a modern type of 
domestic architecture by rea- 
son of its having been built 
upon a somewhat difficult 
site, and yet made thoroughly 
charming without any conces- 
sion to exigencies which have 
curbed the free hand of the 
architect in designing the 
plans for the house. 
The house of the Hon. 
Timothy L. Woodruff, at 
Garden City, Long Island, as 
planned by Augustus N. 
Allen, architect, New York, 
presents the solution of an 
entirely different suburban 
problem, inasmuch as the 
country at Garden City is al- 
Plans of the house of the Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, at Garden City most flat land. This house 
is surrounded by grounds so ample that the place might 
almost be called a country estate. In style the architecture 
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