March, 1912 
floor plan, the bed- 
rooms are either un- 
duly in evidence or 
else involve a long, 
dark hall. Here they 
are so placed that 
they occupy another 
corner of the building 
and, with their bath 
and dressing - rooms, 
are separated by a 
small hall from the 
rest of the house. We 
have never seen a 
house where such an 
abundance of window 
space has been ob- 
tained, without detri- 
ment to the beauty of 
the walls or sacrific- 
ing to expediency the 
artistic appearance of 
the house as a whole. 
Fictes arene ite 
windows in one bedroom, five windows in another, and two 
sides of a bathroom and dressing-room are entirely of win- 
dows. This is, of course, an ideal arrangement where a 
house has been planned for occupancy during the entire year, 
including a long and usually a very warm Summer. One 
hardly expects to find a second story in a house of this 
character, which seems to have been planned upon one floor, 
but an upper story there is, extending over the greater part 
of the house and reached by the stairway which gives ac- 
cess to the living-room balcony. The rooms upon this floor 
have an unusual amount of window space and a consider- 
able variety of outlook, as they face in three different 
directions. 
One of the exterior views which is here shown is of the 
corner of the house containing the bath and bedrooms upon 
the lower floor. The handling of the horizontal lines here 
is particularly interesting. The line formed by the veranda 
cornice is, of course, sufficiently important to be a deco- 
oS vise r a 
The play of light and shadow upon th 
Interior of the high-walled living-room, showing the balcony 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 89 
rative feature to be 
reckoned with, and 
yet to extend the win- 
dows from the roof 
to this line would be 
to ruin the symmetry 
of the entire fenestra- 
tion. The placing of 
panels of stucco be- 
tween the window 
sills and the horizon- 
tal band which ex- 
tends the line of the 
veranda roof em- 
phasizes just the gen- 
eral effect which the 
architect has em- 
ployed so consist- 
ently. Another very 
thoughtful piece of 
designing is the nar- 
row band of dark- 
stained woodwork 
just above the ground, 
which supplies a note of strength to the entire structure. 
Still another pleasing detail is the deep window-boxes just 
below the six windows in the bay window of the living-room. 
Filled with yellow and red Nasturtiums in Summer and Box 
in Winter, they would add greatly to the decorative value 
of the exterior. Indeed, now that we are beginning to dis- 
cover the architectural value of the window-box as a legiti- 
mate decorative adjunct, our American house designers are 
paying much attention to employing it to enchance their 
designs. 
There are many features of this beautiful house at Wil- 
mette which might well be studied by home-builders any- 
where. The house would be at home in almost any section 
of the country and with its lofty ceilings and several veran- 
das, would be quite as comfortable as a Summer home upon 
the coast of Maine as it would be if it were used as a Win- 
ter home in Florida or Southern California. More vines 
around the larger wall space would complete the decoration. 
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e stucco walls and the silhouetted shadows of the foliage areduice a really delightful decorative effect 
