July, 1912 
View of the living-room 
building. Walls are covered with clapboards painted white, 
and windows are hung with blinds painted green and are 
filled with small panes of glass, dictated, no doubt, by the 
dificulty and expense of securing larger panes rather than 
by the desire for the picturesqueness of effect which we so 
highly value to-day. One strongly suspects that the “‘eye- 
brow” window set in the roof and the broad veranda across 
the front of the house and around one end may be recent 
additions and concessions to modern demands, but so true 
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View of the den or study 
a regard has been held for consistency of design and the 
general fitness of things that they heighten, if possible, the 
old-fashioned quaintness of the building. 
The chief entrance to the house is through a wide and 
hospitable doorway with “‘side-lights” in true New England 
style. The tiny hallway just within, with the narrow stair- 
way, which, with many turns, leads to the floor above, is also 
characteristic of a farmhouse of the time and was made 
necessary, no doubt, by the fact that the huge “stack” chim- 
The sun-room, which is a glazed piazza, contains a fine fireplace 
