AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1906 
The 
Residence of 
W. #H. 
Harrison, Esq. 
Rochelle - 
Park 
New Rochelle 
New York 
4HE picturesque and interesting residence 
illustrated in these pages is the most recent 
addition to that group of suburban houses 
which have been built within the confines of 
“Rochelle Park,’ New Rochelle, N. Y., 
and, as a whole, exhibits a most interesting 
expression of the modern domestic architecture of its par- 
ticular class. Mr. Harrison’s house presents the success- 
ful treatment of a site which, in itself, forms so many ad- 
vantages upon which the mind of an architect naturally 
seizes, and the effect therefore was to be gained in designing, 
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as Mr. Cottrell has so ably demonstrated, a building in har- 
mony with the site which is so beautifully endowed by nature. 
Rochelle Park is fortunate in its seclusion from a busy 
street life, for it has the general air of a quiet home-life, de- 
voted to detached houses, and with many beautiful avenues 
with vistas ending in wooded slopes. The site upon which 
Mr. Harrison’s house is placed, rises gradually from the 
Boulevard, with the foreground well wooded with oak and 
sycamore, with which the site abounds, and as it is a promi- 
nent one, the style of architecture selected for the house is of 
the low and elongated type, with a motif of English and 
View of One of the Porches, Showing the Parapeted Terrace between the Porches at the Front of the House 
