April, 1912 
One is pleasantly im- 
pressed with all this upon 
entering the spacious hall, 
where cream-white Colonial 
balustrades curve outward 
in a graceful spread at the 
bottom of the stairs, and an 
old mahogany settle invites 
the visitor to rest opposite a 
fine claw-foot cabinet of like 
period. Wide doorways 
open on one side into the 
drawing-room, and on the 
other into the library and 
the dining-room, with a long 
vista before one of the out- 
door living-room beyond, 
which is glass-enclosed dur- 
ing the Winter. 
Within the drawing-room 
the heart of the collector is 
stirred to enthusiasm—if not, 
indeed, to envy—for upon a 
Colonial Adam mantel of 
white, with panoply of an- 
tique brasses in the fireplace, 
stands a clock that Sheraton 
himself designed, its beauty 
reflected in a genuine Adam 
mirror. 
Hepplewhite and Shera- 
ton are handsomely repre- 
sented in this house, but the 
famous Robert Adam is re- 
sponsible for most of the 
furniture in the long room, 
as the flat table-like desk, 
exquisitely modeled and with 
three drawers in each side; 
a cabinet that is an inspira- 
tion in grace of line and pro- 
portions, and which is 
matched by two duplicates 
of modern make; a sofa, up- 
holstered in rich striped silk 
of a delicate Adam greenand 
pearl-white; such mirrors 
and wall-brackets for lights 
as Adam was master at fashioning, companied by chairs of 
his design, a Sheraton inlaid consul table, and a wonderful 
ot 
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An interesting corner of the hallway 
GARDENS 
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oan the center of the hall 
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sofa of the same period, with 
swanheads curved gracefully 
over each end, and which is 
a trophy discovered by Mrs. 
Callaway in an obscure Eng- 
lish village shop. 
Not less beautiful than the 
antiques, although, perhaps, 
lacking a certain indefinable 
softness of lustre which age 
imparts to old mahogany, 
are a table and several chairs 
which are exact reproduc- 
tions of pieces owned by In- 
dependence Hall, Philadel- 
phia, and for the copying of 
which a permit had to be ob- 
tained, although these pieces 
have since been reproduced 
more generally, some of 
which were illustrated in 
AMERICAN HoMES AND 
(GARDENS for January, 1912. 
In keeping with the furni- 
ture are the ornaments and 
the bric-a-brac, while the 
ample cabinets contain a 
wealth of antique loveliness, 
Oriental, European and Co- 
lonial, ranging from rare 
porcelains, curios and ex- 
amples of the silversmiths’ 
and jewelers’ art to rich 
pieces of antique embroidery 
and quaint jeweled combs 
that held the tresses of belles 
of bygone centuries. 
The library uncovers to 
the sight of the visitor more 
curios in a long, many-win- 
dowed room, where book- 
cases of the late Georgian 
period are supplemented by 
modern imitations, and 
where rare illuminated vol- 
umes of the past touch bind- 
ings with romances of the 
present. Beneath a spread 
of windows that overlook lawn and grove and a garden 
sloping to wooded mountain-side, is placed a Sheraton sofa 
