November, 1912 
the half-timber construction 
peeping out here and there 
to lend to the whole a sense 
of warmth. : 
he house is entered 
through a broad doorway 
opening into a square vesti- 
bule from which one may 
look straight ahead through 
the hallway that gives direct 
access to an attractive room- 
like covered porch of goodly 
proportion. There is_ al- 
ways something pleasant 
about a hallway that runs 
directly through a _ house, 
reminding us of the old- 
fashioned hallway arrange- 
ment of Colonial houses. 
However, in “Upwey”’ this 
hallway does not lead to 
a level. Instead, the porch 
mentioned above is a story 
above the rear garden level 
of the house by reason of 
its hill-crest location. This 
out-door “sun-parlor” (to 
use a commonplace term for 
something as far removed 
from the commonplace as a 
porch could be), is also 
reached from a door to the 
left of the windows at the end of the dining-room and often 
the host and hostess of “Upwey” have the table set there 
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The garden front of “Upwey” 
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for the morning repast. In 
Summertime as one sits here 
when the golden sunlight 
glints the leafy tree-tops 
just beyond, it all seems like 
a house in the tree-tops such 
as the fancy conjures up 
when one turns the delight- 
ful pages of “Peter Pan” 
till he comes to where 
Wendy and Peter Pan live 
happily ever afterwards. 
I suppose the passer-by 
would never be able to 
“guess out” (as the school- 
boy said of the puzzle) the 
arrangement of the interior 
of “Upwey” from the ex- 
terior. here are the little 
windows—not so _ little, 
either—of leaded panes 
which you see from the 
roadway, imagining, per- 
haps, that if you stepped 
close to the house you might 
be looking directly upon a 
ground floor on the same 
level as that at which you 
would be standing. But once 
inside you discover that 
these windows light the 
large living-room to the left 
of the hall some distance above one’s head as he stands 
in this room which is sunk eight steps—some six feet below 
and setting of trees 
