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A Colonial Staircase of Good Design, Has White Enameled Balusters 
and a Mahogany Rail 
old Dutch room. <A beamed ceiling, paneled seats in the 
bay window and an open fireplace with tile facings and 
hearth, and a mantel of old Dutch character, completes the 
room. The kitchen, servants’ hall and its dependencies are 
treated and fitted in a first class manner, with all the best 
modern appointments. 
The second floor contains the sleeping rooms, consisting 
of the owner’s suite of one large bedroom, a boudoir, and a 
large bathroom, and also two bedrooms and private bath for 
the men of the family, and three guest rooms, two of which 
have private bathrooms. ‘Three servant bedrooms and bath- 
room are placed over the kitchen extension. 
Each bedroom is treated with white enamel, 
and is with wall 
floor covering and furniture in a complete 
harmony. ‘The bathrooms have tiled floors 
and wainscoting, and are furnished with 
solid porcelain fixtures and exposed nickel- 
plated plumbing. Extra guest rooms and 
bath, extra servant bedrooms and bath, and 
trunk rooms are placed on the third floor. 
furnished decorations, 
The laundry, heating apparatus and ‘fuel 
rooms. are placed inv the \cellar:;” “Ihe 
grounds surrounding the house have been 
very carefully laid out, and the formal gar- 
den to the east of the house, with its sun- 
dial, and its Japanese lantern placed under 
the group of trees adjoining the garden, is 
The other 
gardens, and the planting all over the 
quite the feature of the estate. 
grounds have received equally as good at- 
tention. The house was designed and 
planned by Mr. Harry E. Donnell, of No. 
3 West 29th Street, New York, who car- 
ried out all the details of the work, and who 
gave the house special care and attention. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1906 
The garden, which is of formal character, is placed at 
the east side of the house and within close proximity to the 
living porch which is also placed on the east side of the 
house. It is laid out in a geometrical form with a bronze 
dial resting on a polished granite base, a pedestal—and 
which forms the keynote of the garden, from which all the 
walks radiate. The walks are built of stone and are topped 
off with crushed stone. The edges of the beds are turfed 
and clipped closely. Within the confines of these beds 
there are grown annuals, some one of which is in continual 
bloom from early in the spring till late in the autumn. The 
grounds which surround the estate are well planted, and 
much care has been used in the distribution of the various 
shrubs in their relations to each other. From the en- 
trance, which is surrounded with a group of growing pines, 
there is a winding road, at every bend of which there are 
placed groups of flowering shrubs. As the road passes on 
to the side of the house, close to the kitchen, great masses 
of shrubs are planted in groups, so as to completely hide 
from view the service entrance. 
In front of the porte-cochére, there are large masses of 
shrubs, and at the point of the curve there is grouped a 
cluster of flowering peonies. 
From the porte-cochere the roadway winds itself down 
to the stable, which is placed in the dell much below the 
site upon which the house stands. At the side of the road, 
and between the house and the stable, there is placed the 
vegetable garden, which is well planted in a formal man- 
ner, and is enclosed with a privet hedge. In this garden 
are also grown the kitchen flowers, and the entrances are 
arched with wire forms, on which are growing crimson 
ramblers. The stable is built in harmony with the house 
and in the same style with yellow painted clapboards, and 
white painted trim. ‘The interior is well equipped with all the 
best modern apphances. ‘The carriage-room is large and 
roomy, and is large enough to admit all the carriages neces- 
sary for a well appointed establishment. ‘There is a carriage 
wash properly connected with drain, and harness-room, with 
glass cases for the harness, and a chimney with heating ap- 
paratus. ‘he stable contains the numerous single and box 
which fitted with the usual ornamental iron 
fixtures. ‘The second story contains the coachman’s quarters 
besides ample space for the storage of hay, feed, etc. 
stalls, are 
The Living-Room Walls are Covered with a Figured Green Silk of Two Tones, and 
a Large India Rug Covers the Floor 
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