November, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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to the stone. The low roof, broken by many dormers, is 
of stained shingles and the walls of the upper floor are 
finished in “‘half timber” where panels of rough cast stucco 
are framed in by bands and cerebels of wood stained a 
color which ties the golden brown of the stucco to the rough 
gray of the stone walls of the floor below. 
The quaintness of this home in the woods is emphasized 
by various balconies and projections supported upon timbers 
of stained wood. Their tendency of course is to broaden 
the already marked horizontal lines of the building and to 
increase the spreading and rambling effect which is so 
interesting. The appearance of this very large but delight- 
fully rural and informal country home set in the forest, is 
one of unusual interest and beauty at 
whichever way it may be approached. 
The guest arrives at ‘““Sho-chiku-bai”’ 
before the main entrance which is re- 
cessed a few feet within the heavy stone 
walls and reached by a few steps and a 
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fireplace lined with brick and set within a massive stone 
mantel fills in one side of the long room, and bookcases and 
casement windows reaching to the floor and opening upon 
terrace and veranda, line other walls. Over the doorway 
into the hall is hung an antique tapestry, and divans and arm 
chairs are grouped about reading tables and in the corners 
of the large room. A wide corridor leads from the entrance- 
hall to the dining-room where furniture of old English 
patterns in tables, sideboards and chairs is framed in by 
high wainscoted walls over which extends a deep frieze. The 
fireplace here is lined with brick and over a low Tudor arch 
of stones is placed a mantel, and paneling of wood which 
creates a background for an old portrait framed in gilt. 
The floor plan provides for two very 
broad verandas. One broad terrace is 
placed just outside the windows of the 
living-room and casements open dir- 
ectly upon the brick flagging, and the 
space, is made beautiful and inviting with 
platform of brick laid upon edge. The 
small hallway within contains the main 
rugs, suitable furniture and the other 
accessories which belong to a spot which 
stairway, and close at hand are the coat 
combines the functions of a living- 
rooms which are convenient for guests 
in a country house, particularly in a 
room and open-air lounging-place. An- 
other terrace is reached through the wide 
place like Tuxedo Park, where every 
form of outdoor life, Summer and Win- 
ter, occupies so large a part of the time. At one side, 
as the spacious house is entered, is a large living-room 
which might be fairly described as a combination of 
drawing-room and of library. Here all of the walls are 
paneled with squares of wood and heavy beams across 
the ceiling frame in sections of ornamented plaster. A great 
Second floor plan 
French windows of the dining-room, and 
the special use for this veranda is that of 
a site where under the vine-laden timbers of a broad Per- 
gola, a Summer morning breakfast may be served or after- 
dinner coffee lingered over. 
The planning of this lower floor is done with a certain 
stately informality and therefore of particular interest, be- 
cause so altogether different, is a reception-room furnished 
