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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1912 
The walls of the living-room are paneled in squares of dark walnut and the ceiling beams are also of walnut 
is occupied chiefly by large and very beautiful estates. Here 
the country is high and rolling, in many places heavily 
wooded and possessing many hilltops from which are to 
be had wonderful views of valleys and hills and glimpses 
of ocean, lakes and sound. Each of the country homes 
which have been established here is set within spacious 
grounds, far from the roadside, and screened by dense 
growth of trees and shrubbery. 
The county home here illustrated is an important estate 
planned and built for its owner by Messrs. Walker & Gil- 
lette, architects, New York. It presents many of the 
aspects that make an English country home so attractive. 
The surroundings are such 
as one finds in many of the 
counties of England, and the 
architecture of the house and 
its service buildings, as well 
as the planning of the 
grounds, garden and other 
parts of the estate are in 
accord with the arrange- 
ment of the most modern 
country homes. Here sur- 
rounded by broad acres and 
amid lawns and a beautiful en 
setting of hedges and shrub- ; : 
bery, the architects have 
built a delightfully pictur- 
esque house, long and low, 
with many gables and some- 
what rambling, which has so 
The paneled hall showing entrance to the living-room 
quickly become a part of its surroundings that it is quite 
easy to imagine it the result of long years of gradual growth. 
The first story, with its many wings and projections, is 
of brick. The roof is of shingles and is brought down in 
broad eaves over the second story, which is of rough plaster 
and wood in half-timber construction. Many of the win- 
dows are arranged in groups with mullions; small panes 
are used everywhere and much ivy and other clinging vines 
are being trained upon the walls. Planting of shrubbery 
in the angles and at the corners of the building and about 
verandas and entrance-porch have done much to make the 
house so intimate a part of its setting. 
The space directly before 
the entrance front has been 
enclosed, English fashion, by 
a tall trimmed hedge. This 
large area is graveled and 
affords ample room for the 
“parking” and turning of 
carriages and motors which 
must be planned for in ar- 
ranging the grounds .of a 
large estate in the part of 
a country where automobil- 
ing is so important a part of 
everyday life. Here abund- 
ant space is provided for the 
accommodation of a number 
of cars without danger of 
injury to shrubbery or flower 
beds. A single broad stone 
