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clearly and, indeed, quite un- 
mistakably, that it is ‘The 
Homestead.” 
That the house is beauti- 
fully situated is an almost 
necessary consequence of its 
location in Lancaster. <A 
great lawn lies before it. Al- 
most exactly in the center is 
an enormous tree, and just 
below it an ancient well that 
still retains its primitive 
sweep. The entrance front is 
of the utmost simplicity; a 
great central building three 
stories in height, flanked by 
two wings two stories in 
height. The middle part of 
the center is projected slight- 
ly forward for the pediment 
with which it is crowned. 
The small entrance porch is 
supported on double columns 
and is surmounted with a bal- 
ustrade. Each floor is dis- 
tinctly marked off with 
string-courses and the win- 
dows throughout are rectan- 
gular, those in the first story 
and in the second story of the 
central building being em- 
phasized with hoods, while the others have frames of the 
simplest sort. The wings are capped with balustrades and 
the center of the house has a high sloping roof with a bal- 
ustrade at the top. The architectural elements are the very 
simplest, but it is a dignified simplicity, exceedingly gracious 
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May, 1906 
in composition and _ highly 
effective by reason of its re- 
strained and scholarly treat- 
ment. 
The terrace front is very 
similar in its component parts 
to the entrance front. The 
central building is _ here 
slightly recessed in the mid- 
dle and the ends brought 
forward. There is a triple 
window with an arched cen- 
ter in the middle of the sec- 
ond story, but save for this 
the windows offer a treat- 
ment precisely similar to that 
which characterizes the en- 
trance front. At the ex- 
treme end of the house, on 
the right of the entrance 
front, is a large semi-circular 
piazza, whose columns carry 
a surmounting balustrade. 
This is the single external 
feature of note attached to 
the house, which makes its 
appeal by mass and propor- 
tion, by carefully studied de- 
tail, and by a rigid adherence 
to the simplest lines. It is a 
house well fitted to its 
beautiful surroundings, introducing no discordant note into 
the serene landscape in which it is placed. 
The present building is actually a re-building and an exten- 
sion of an earlier house. Most of its predecessor has been 
completely encased within the present structure. But the 
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