July, 1906 



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no other living person than the very accomplished author 

 of this design. 



He has discarded, as he has done more than once before, 

 all preconceived notions of symmetry and balance, and de- 

 signed his exterior to meet the requirements of the interior. 

 In itself this implies no novelty since it is exactly the process 

 on which every architect proceeds — or is supposed to do so. 

 But Mr. Eyre declines to believe that because your 

 main entrance is in the center of a house the walls and 

 openings on either side must be identical. His argu- 

 ment may be briefly imagined to be this: The rooms 

 on either side of the entrance have different functions; 

 therefore I will cut my windows where they will be of 



phy, he has, in the Deacon house, proceeded in exactly the 

 way I have imagined him to have done. His window spac- 

 ing is as irregular as it can be. There are six openings in 

 the first floor, three on each side of the porch ; but the two 

 outer ones at each end are unlike in size and situation, and 

 of those next the porch one is a small oval window and the 

 other a two-story opening with an arched top. The spacing 



The Terrace Front and its Massive Stone Base 



the most service to the rooms; these windows in shape and 

 size will be the best windows I can think of to suit the in- 

 terior purposes; and if the result is not good it will not be 

 because I have not done the best I could. 



We may be very sure that the latter clause never entered 

 Mr. Eyre's mind, and the results of his theorizing have more 

 than once proved the soundness of his reasoning and the 

 completeness of his art. But whatever his general philoso- 



of the windows on the second floor is quite as irregular, since 

 they are not over those of the first story, and the bay window 

 on one side is not repeated on the other. This wall is 

 crowned by a high shingled roof in which are three simple 

 dormers. The entrance porch is of the plainest description, 

 with a high shingled roof, while the adjoining space, on 

 each side, is separated from the further areas by a low stone 

 wall applied to the stuccoed wall of the house. 



So much for the entrance front, yet this bald description 

 by no means sums up the whole of the exterior of the treat- 

 ment. At one end is a great chimney, built without the wall 

 of the house and rising from the ground. Just before it is a 

 hooded wall, pierced by an archway and closed with a- 

 hooded gate. At the further end is the servants' porch with 



