1906 
June, 
AMERTECAN@HOMES 
AND GARDENS 
Notable 
American 
Homes 
By Barr Ferree 
“Pembroke,” the Estate of Mrs. Charles Wheeler, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 
GRACEFULLY designed and charmingly 
environed lodge is at the entrance to Mrs. 
Wheeler’s place at Bryn Mawr. It is built 
directly from the road, its outer wall being 
continuous with the hedge that bounds the 
property. The house is quite near the read, 
yet far enough back to have every quality of privacy, and is 
screened from outer vision by stately trees standing in a 
spacious lawn, beautifully grassed and graded. ‘The en- 
trance road describes a broad curve, and the visitor leaves 
his carriage beneath the porte cochere placed at the entrance 
of the house. 
' This porte cochére is a two-story structure, open below 
where it covers the entrance to the main doorway of the 
house, and built out above, where it forms an upper raom 
which is lighted on the outer face by a rectangular window, 
framed in dark wood and decorated with carved figures. 
The house is both old and new, the older building which 
The Leng Garden Front is Picturesquely Diversified 
