February, 
1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 43 
Fe country home of G. M. Pinney, Esq., at Donen Hills, New York 
and dignified result which belongs to a country home of 
this size. 
The interesting house of John W. Charlton, Esq., Bronx- 
ville, New York, planned by O. J. Gette, architect, is an 
adaptation of a farmhouse motif and 
suggests certain afhliations with what 
is known as the Pennsylvania Dutch 
style of architecture, particularly the 
broad “hood” which is carried across 
the windows of the lower floor, the 
paneled wooden shutters and the dor- 
mers, with their graceful arrange- 
ment of window panes. The house 
occupies a site in rugged, hilly coun- 
try, where rocks and boulders are 
often pushed up through the soil. 
Such boulders are often covered with 
Ivy or Creeping Phlox, but here a 
very simple treatment proves inter- 
esting and appropriate. The house 
is placed against a background of fine 
old trees and is of frame, excepting 
part of the first story, which is of 
stone. Perhaps the most interesting 
single feature of the exterior is the 
broad piazza with balcony above. 
The treatment of this end of the house, with its tall white 
columns and detail of balustrade, suggests a plantation house 
of the Louisiana or Mississippi type. The floor plans are 
very simple and direct—a broad entrance-hall, reception- 
The effect obtained by Mbales oF a thatched roof lends a aecidea Pe a 
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The floor plans of the house of Alfred Cluthe, Esq. 
The Pinney house is one of the most attractive homes on Staten Island 
room, living- and dining-rooms and kitchen below, and four 
bedrooms and bath on the floor above, and the garret pro- 
vides rooms for the maids. In this house, as in most su- 
burban and country homes now being built, the architect has 
provided an out-of-door living-room, 
or veranda, entirely apart from the 
porch which marks the entrance. 
This adds greatly to the comfort and 
convenience of the family as well as 
of the arriving guest. 
The house at Westfield, New Jer- 
sey, here shown, suggests the New 
England farmhouse type. Its pro- 
portions are accurate, its lines severe 
and, like its New England forbears, 
its slight touches of decoration mark 
the entrance to the house, which is 
approached from the street by a 
straight walk of brick, which is bor- 
dered by a low hedge of box. No 
frills or fads here—no gypsy kettles 
filled with blooming geraniums! But 
the hedges are closely clipped, the 
lawn duly shorn, as befits the sur- 
roundings of a house of this fascinat- 
ing type. The Beard house, A. L. C. 
Marsh, architect, New York, is of the kind which might or 
might not be surrounded by ample grounds. It does not re- 
quire them, and would be exceedingly pleasing had it just 
sufficient space for the trees and the amount of shrubbery 
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