September, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Simplicity is the Keynote of the Design of the House 



the plan allows the cool breezes 

 from either east or west to sweep 

 through the house. 



The entrance-hall runs the 

 whole depth of the house, from 



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of Poussin's famous painting, representing a group of 

 shepherds with their flocks, clustered about a ruined 

 altar, upon which is the barely decipherable inscription 

 "Et in Acadia ego," ("I, too, have been in Arcady"). 

 The mantel, which is of simple wood paneling, bears 

 over the shelf an old-fashioned convex mirror of 

 Colonial design. Arranged around three sides of the 

 hearth are low stools, upholstered in Spanish leather, 

 where one can sit and toast chestnuts or toes. On the 

 opposite side of the room is a large settee of very 

 similar but most luxuriant design, worked out to accom- 

 modate at least six persons, with low extension at the 

 front for foot-rests. 

 Between the wide 

 western windows of 

 the room, looking 

 toward Haverhill, is 

 a cast of the beautiful 

 dancing-girl from the 

 Berlin Museum. 



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front to back, and is sixteen feet wide. On the left 

 of the entrance is the living-room, twenty-five feet 

 square, with large windows on three sides and a 

 high fireplace and chimney-corner toward the north. 

 The fireplace is large enough to take a small load 

 of logs, and in the winter time a roaring fire is kept 

 here, which abundantly heats the whole room with- 

 out any help from the furnace. The fireplace is 

 itself a quaint design, carried out in rough brick, 

 and over the fireplace opening is a clever adaptation 



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