AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1912 
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A New Jersey House, the Prototype of a Famous 
Virginia Manor 
By Mary W. Mount 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
q)| HERE Vauxhall Mountain rises steeply be- 
yond the last spur of the Orange Range, in 
Essex County, New Jersey, one finds spread- 
ing upon its southern slope the beautiful 
picture of a town that seems to have been 
translated from the Virginia of a bygone 
century and set here within the frame of wooded mountain- 
side and verdant meadowlands. If one were to draw rein 
within its rose-girt bridlepath he would fancy himself in 
Alexandria, amid the hills of Virginia, 
instead of in Wyoming, upon Vaux- | 
hall Mountain, and he would undoubt- 
edly feel impelled to dismount before 
the house herein described—a house 
that follows closely the lines of the Car- 
lyle mansion at Alexandria, Virginia, 
where General Washington was wont 
to lodge. 
Nature has lent itself to this repro- 
duction of one of Virginia’s most famous 
mansions, and furnishes for its site a 
slope so steep that, from the back, this 
modern Carlyle house has all the. ap- 
pearance of standing upon a fortress, such as formed the 
foundation for its prototype. Within vine-draped, flower- 
bordered walls of gray, a postern gate stands hospitably 
ajar. And when it has swung more widely to welcome the 
coming guest within a blossom-grown terrace and so into 
a wide Colonial hall, there comes the realization that where 
architect has left off with outer semblance of the old-time 
Carlyle house, the mistress of this newer one has wrought 
within it an atmosphere that inspires the whole with the 
spirit of Colonial times. 
The ground-floor: plan 
Here is evident the enthusiasm of a 
collector with that discriminating taste 
born of knowledge and experience, for 
both Mr. and Mrs. William T. Cal- 
laway, for whom this residence was built, 
keenly enjoy the quest for antique fur- 
niture of the later Georgian period, and 
have gathered, here and abroad, treas- 
ures of Adam, Sheraton, Hepplewhite 
and Chippendale styles in order that 
old actualities in furnishings may per- 
vade a modern reproduction of the old 
historic dwelling, gracing a favored spot. 
