July, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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made into the house. The reception-room and dining-room 

 occupy similar places to the ones in the original plan. The 

 remainder of the interior has undergone many small changes 

 which were made to meet the necessary requirements, but 

 still retaining the outlines of the main house. 



The entrance hall is treated in an artistic manner, and 

 presents the key-note to the whole general scheme. The 

 trim and the moldings on the walls are painted white. 

 These moldings are placed on the walls forming panels 

 which are treated in French gray. An attractive arch, with 

 fluted pilasters, forms an alcove for the grandfather's clock; 

 a similar arch separates the staircase hall from the main 

 hall. The trim of this hall is painted white, and harmonize? 

 well with the wall paper, which is in the design of a greer 

 trellis on which are large rose vines of red, yellow and pink. 



The staircase has a balustrade of white painted risers 

 and balusters, and a mahogany rail and treads. At the rail 

 and underneath each tread is a scroll bracket of Colonial 

 detail. The wall space at the side of the staircase is cov- 

 ered with portraits of the Presidents of the United States* 

 the first eleven being old colored lithographs framed exactl) 

 alike in old mahogany frames. 



The reception room is placed at the right of the entrance, 

 and is treated in a green color scheme. The trim is painted 

 white. The walls have a low dado formed by moldings 

 placed on the walls and the whole painted white. Above 

 this dado the wall space is covered with green striped water 

 silk with border cut out of gathered silk of pink roses. This 

 border is placed at the top of the dado and extends up and 



old sofa, the Windsor chair, the card table and the old 

 mirror. 



Glass doors open to the hall and living-room, giving at- 

 tractive vistas and enlarging the apparent size of the room. 

 Opening from the hall, and connecting with the reception- 



The Fountain in the Center of the Garden is Surrounded with 

 a Profuse Growth of Ferns 



around the door and window openings. The same border 

 extends around the room under the wooden cornice 

 with which the whole is finished. The fireplace is quite the 

 feature of the room and has a facing of Aurora marble, a 

 tiled hearth and an elegantly carved mantel with over man- 

 tel. The furnishings of the room are good, particularly the 



The Summer House at the Terminal of the Walk has a Stately Entrance 

 with Massive Pilasters at Either Side, Supporting a Pediment 



room, is the living-room, which is treated in a general 

 scheme of red, of which the design is French. The walls 

 have a low, paneled dado, above which are panels with 

 moldings painted white. Between these moldings the 

 panels are covered with red striped French paper; all the 

 trim of the room is painted white. The fireplace has facings 

 of marble, with a very handsome carved mantel and over 

 mantel, in the style of Louis XVI. 



The floor is covered with a large red rug with a plain red 

 center and a wide border. The furniture is upholstered in 

 red rep. The draperies are of striped material with dainty 

 French designs in alternate strips. The combination of 

 color in this room is extremely brilliant, warm and attrac- 

 tive. French windows open into the sun-room, which is 

 furnished with green wicker furniture and turkey red up- 

 holstery. 



The color scheme of the dining-room is blue. The trim is 

 painted white. The walls have a low Colonial dado, and 

 above this they are covered with wall paper in two shades 

 of blue, dark and rich, and finished with a block cornice. 

 The ceiling is ornamented with fruit wreaths in piaster. 



The mantel side of the room is quite the feature. The 

 fireplace has facing and hearth of sienna marble, and a 

 handsomely carved mantel which is an exact copy of the 

 mantel in the Governor Wentworth house in Portsmouth, 

 N. H., with the addition of cupboards for china placed at 

 either side. 



The furniture of the room is of dark oak. The rug is of 

 blue, in two tones, and the pictures are framed in gold to 



