August, 1912 
A glimpse of the lake is had from the hall 
end upon a broad flagged terrace which overlooks the estate, 
the blue waters of the lake and the mountains, covered with 
vegetation, which loom up beyond. At one side of this 
long dividing-hall, the open library and the living-room are 
placed so that these rooms, which are those most lived in, 
may secure the most attractive outlook. Upon the opposite 
side is the dining-room and a small service-hall connects 
the main hall and the dining-room with kitchen, pantry and 
other servants’ quarters beyond. The feeling created in 
this beautiful house is that of being out-of-doors. The long 
hall of the main floor is closed at the end by French 
windows which seem to bring the water and the hills very 
near, and large windows everywhere show nature close at 
hand. This feeling of openness is strengthened, perhaps, 
by the broad doorways and the character of the furnishings, 
for everywhere are white woodwork and coverings for walls 
and floors of soft grays and greens with foliage ettects, all 
of which form a background for mahogany in furniture, 
stair-rails and frames in which are hung old English prints. 
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Hall, looking toward the entrance doorway 
The furniture is neither Sheraton nor Chippendale, but of 
American design, made perhaps fifty or sixty years ago. 
Much of it consists of chairs and “‘sofas’” which were prob- 
ably covered originally with black horsehair and which are 
often associated with the decadent period of American deco- 
ration and furnishing. Covered, as they are here, with 
tasteful and appropriate fabrics, they may be said to have 
come into their own, and their use confers a certain char- 
acter upon the room in which they are placed. A great deal 
of the furniture throughout the house was made, and has 
always been used, in the country near by, and its use here 
is therefore particularly appropriate as identifying both 
house and furnishings with the environment in which they 
are set. The mantels throughout the house are in many 
cases of old work which has been removed from other 
buildings, and the woodwork has been carefully designed to 
agree with them. ‘The simplest of curtains have been used 
and are chiefly sash curtains and straight draperies pushed 
back merely to frame the windows and the glorious out- 
looks at hand upon every side. 
Upon the second floor are arranged five bedrooms and 
a small sitting-room which occupies the space at the end of 
the upper-hall which, like that below, divides the house. 
Three of these rooms are provided with bathrooms of their 
own and the other bedrooms connect almost directly with 
another bath. In the upper story are quarters for servants 
which, through the service-hall upon the second floor, are 
connected with kitchen, pantry and servants’ dining-room, 
and this arrangement throughout the building entirely 
separates the servants’ portion of the house from that part 
intended for the family. Fully half of the space in this 
upper story is devoted to three guestrooms, a bathroom 
and the long corridor upon which all of these rooms open. 
Some of the windows here are recessed in deep dormers, 
from which are had most inspiring vistas of forest, lake 
and hills. 
A short flight of steps from the main hall leads to the 
basement where, upon the side toward the lake, a billiard- 
room has been arranged. Owing to the abrupt slope of 
the ground this room is entirely above the surface and the 
thick walls which are the original masonry of the old mill 
are of stone pieced out with brick above windows and 
around doors. The inner walls and the floor are also of 
stone and at one end of the room, opposite the fireplace, 
a group of windows overlooks a grass terrace enclosed by 
a low wall. French windows also open onto a wide veranda 
flagged with quarries and covered by the terrace of the main 
floor, with which it is connected by a stairway of brick. 
The old mill in its present aspect shows a remarkably 
