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and each has tiled 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1906 
and one from the 
wainscotings and 
rear. It contains a 
floors paved with 
tile. [hey are fur- 
nished with porce- 
lain fixtures and ex- 
posed nickelplated 
plumbing. 
There are ‘three 
bathrooms on_ this 
floor, a!l of which 
are arranged in an 
admirable manner, 
so that each bed- 
room is within close 
relation with one of 
the other of the 
bathrooms. ‘Three 
of the bedrooms on 
this floor have open 
fireplaces, which are 
built of brick with the facings and hearth of same, and a 
mantel of neat design in the Colonial style. The third floor 
contains an extra guest room, besides the servants’ bedrooms 
and bath, and a trunk room, all of which are reached from 
a private stairway leading from the lower servants’ hall, 
which also connects with the second story floor. The cellar, 
which extends under the entire house, and has a bottom 
which is concreted with Portland cement, is provided with two 
entrances from the exterior, one from the front of the house 
ta SOF BAS oe 
The Pergola at the End of Which there is a Brick Wall Pierced by a Wall Fountain 
large laundry, which 
is fitted up with 
wash trays and laun- 
dry range complete. 
There is also the 
heating apparatus, 
which contains a di- 
rect and indiress 
system; the fuel 
rooms. for thie 
kitchen and furnace 
coal, and large cold 
storage and vege- 
table cellars. 
The entire estate, 
including the house 
with its decorations 
and furnishings, the 
stable and its fit- 
tings, the vegetable and flower garden with its fountain and 
pergola, were built under a special form of contract devised 
by Messrs. Hoggson Brothers, of 7 East Forty-fourth Street, 
New York. Under this form of contract the owner is relieved 
of all responsibility and care in the treatment of his house and 
his grounds, and when the work is done he finds the house 
illuminated, dinner waiting to be served and the living and 
sleeping-rooms ready for occupancy, while by the pressing of 
a button he will find the equipage at the door, 
The Formal Garden with Its Sun-Dial, and Grassed Walks, at the Entrance Front of the House 
