“Meadow Court” 
A sitting-room, 
covered with clinging ivy and many kinds of flowering vines. 
The ceiling of the living-room is beamed in a manner 
which is at once rich and extremely simple and which recalls 
the ceilings of certain old Franciscan refectories in Cali- 
fornia. Walls are wainscoted with paneling of the same 
dark woodwork and the space between the wainscoting and 
the open ceiling is covered with a fabric which with its 
roughness of texture offers just the background required 
for the pictures and other adornments with which the room 
is filled. 
Soft Oriental rugs cover the floor and about the fire- 
place. At one end of the living-room are grouped broad 
divans and deep-cushioned chairs which invite comfortable 
lounging. Upon a wide study table are tall metal candle- 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
The shore front of “Meadow Court,”’ as seen from the lily-pond bordered by the road to the boat-house 
September, 1912 
The dining-room at “Meadow Court” 
sticks fitted with shades of soft shirred silk which reflect the 
electric light upon books, magazines and writing materials. 
More illumination is supplied by four old altar lamps which 
have also been fitted for electric lighting and which are 
hung with befitting formality from the crossings of the heavy 
beams of the timbered ceiling. 
Upon the lower floor of ‘Meadow Court” are also a 
drawing-room, billiard-room and study, together with the 
dining-room and service quarters in keeping with an estate 
so ample and complete. The dining-room walls are cov- 
ered with a fabric showing a pattern in which leaves and 
foliage in their natural colors appear. Cretonne or taffeta 
of exactly the same pattern and coloring is used as hangings, 
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