February, 1906 
this. The first story of the extremities of the four wings are 
treated as loggias; those toward the forecourt are inclosed 
within beautiful decorative lattice screens, and those toward 
the water are open and are used as open rooms directly over- 
looking the sea. The space between them forms a terrace in- 
closed within a balustrade, which is repeated in the base of 
the windows of the loggias. Of the other external features of 
the house it is sufficient to point out that on one side is an 
open porch supported by high columns, and on the other, 
which is the kitchen side, is a sunken inclosure containing a 
clothes yard and a court for the delivery service. 
While the plan of the house would seem to suggest a plan 
The Library Walls are Paneled in White and French Gray. 
Color of the Furniture is the Same 
of some complexity, it is in reality very simple and direct in 
its arrangements. The entrance doorway conducts one im- 
mediately to the vestibule; beyond it, and overlooking the 
water directly in the center of the house, is the drawing-room; 
to the right is the library; to the left the dining-room; the 
wing adjoining the latter is completely given over to the 
kitchen and service departments; the wing on the right con- 
tains a large room devoted to the use of the children of the 
family. 
The vestibule, or entrance hall, is an oblong apartment 
covered with a vaulted ceiling. The main arches are paneled 
in smaller rectangular panels, but all of the other surfaces 
are undecorated, save for the indication of stone courses in 
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the lower walls. The floor is of black and white marble. 
Directly in face, as one enters, is a large mirror and on either 
side round-arched doorways with glazed doors leading to 
the drawing-room. The end walls have each an archway ad- 
mitting to a passage to the adjoining rooms, the twin open- 
ing adjoining being filled with a mirror. Costly marble vases 
stand in this hall. 
The drawing-room is a spacious and beautiful room, whose 
three windows look onto the terrace on the water front. It 
is paneled in white throughout, with large, square, plain 
panels and smaller ones on each side of the opening which 
are decorated throughout in relief, the larger ones being plain 
The Curtains are of Gray Silk, and the Predominating 
with small rectangular decorated panels above them. ‘The 
openings are arched, but the doors are rectangular in shape, 
with decorated tympanums in relief within the inclosing 
arches. There are three built-in mirrors in the room, a round- 
top one over the mantel of mottled marble, which is placed 
in the center of the entrance wall, and a rectangular mirror 
in the center of each end wall. The ceiling is plain, but sup- 
ported on a detailed cornice. The curtains are of light blue 
silk, and the furniture, which is of white and gold, is covered 
with the same delicate material. The hardwood floor is coy- 
ered with a rug in harmony with the furnishings of the room. 
The library walls are paneled in white and French gray. 
The panels are somewhat strongly molded, but are plain 
