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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1906 
The Residence of 
Walter B. Todd, Esa 
“Rock Ridge,’ Greenwich, Connecticut 
NE of the most novel and interesting houses 
at ‘Rock Ridge,” Greenwich, Conn., is the 
one recently built for Walter B. Todd, Esq., 
and which is illustrated in these pages. The 
general scheme of the house and grounds 
represents the successful treatment of a site 
which possessed no unusual advantages, and the effect, there- 
fore, had to be gained from the house alone, and with few 
The Loggias Give an Expression of 
outlying features being permitted to attract the eye from it. 
The house is designed in the style of the Spanish Renaissance, 
and its facade, with its imposing and handsome doorway, is 
well detailed and executed. ‘The terrace, extending from the 
front entrance and returning to the piazza, which is placed 
on two sides of the house, gives an expression of width. The 
building is constructed of stucco placed on in two coats on 
metal lath, and is left in its natural gray color. The trim- 
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