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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1906 



scheme of the room, the rug, which is a splendid Oriental 

 fabric, heing in harmony with them. The furniture is Geor- 

 gian and principally Chippendale. The wood is mahog- 

 any and the coverings are mostly of old rose damask. Some 

 pieces are covered with old silk. 



Like the drawing-room the dining-room is finished in 

 cream white plaster. It has an elaborately carved white mar- 

 ble mantel. The walls are paneled with the wainscot below 

 and large plain rectangular panels above. The windows 

 have ornamental frames encasing the curtains which are sea 

 green in color. The prevailing color of the rugs is green 

 and the Chippendale chairs are covered with dark green 



of this description, and has produced a dwelling of genuine 

 interest. It is a design that combines in a quite remarkable 

 degree the somewhat contradictory qualities of quiet dignity 

 and real homeliness. The ornamental and festal aspects of a 

 Newport cottage are qualities not to be ignored by the archi- 

 tect who would obtain success in designing houses of this 

 description. These are qualities essential to buildings of this 

 class. And these qualities are quite distinctly prominent in 

 this design. But the monumental character of this residence 

 is obtained by the use of quiet lines, of simple motifs and by 

 thoroughly restrained treatment. No dwelling of this class 

 can have, or should have, a character of marked domesticity; 



The Terrace Overlooking the Garden is Paved with Brick and Shaded by an Awning 



leather. The sideboards are fine examples of Chippendale 

 and Hipplewhite. 



Of the material portions of the house — of the kitchens 

 and service-rooms, the bedrooms for the owners and his 

 guests, the bathrooms, and, lastly, the sleeping-quarters for 

 the servants, it is unnecessary to speak. Important as all 

 these rooms and apartments are, they are better classed as 

 the private parts of the house, with which the public are 

 little concerned and of which, indeed, many guests in such a 

 house know little or nothing. 



Here, then, is a very agreeable and charming house, very 

 beautifully environed in its park-like grounds of two acres. 

 It is a house of quiet and distinguished beauty, designed with 

 uncommon skill, and finished and furnished in a truly de- 

 lightful manner. Mr. Horace Trumbauer, its architect, of 

 Philadelphia, has brought to his task unusual ability in work 



but in this stately design Mr. Knight has been fortunate in 

 obtaining a house that partakes quite as much of this char- 

 acter as could be expected. 



And in this, surely, is the chief reason for its success. A 

 successful house should not only be good to look at, but it 

 should be manifestly suited to the needs of its owner and to 

 the requirements of the environment in which it is placed. 

 A Newport cottage can not, by its very nature, be an insig- 

 nificant or unimportant structure. Neither, on the other 

 hand, need it be, as many of them are, glaringly prominent. 

 It is Mr. Knight's rare good fortune to have obtained a 

 house of abounding architectural excellence, of real dignity, 

 of ample size, and withal so delightfully simple and good that 

 it stands in a class almost alone. This is an achievement of 

 no small importance. It is not often so admirably achieved 

 in a building of this size in so admirable a manner. 



