September, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



165 



The walls of the room are covered with burlap stained a 

 dull, clear red color, relieved with a broad stripe. The hall 

 adjoining has a similar striped burlap, but in a clear, golden 

 yellow. The finish in the hall and in the living-room both is 

 white-enameled paint. The hall likewise has a neat fireplace 

 in the corner near the entrance. The fireplace itself is built of 

 concrete, in which are set some small boulders taken from a 

 neighboring hill. In the hearth are set three rounded, 

 polished brass disks, and around the edge of the hearth, con- 

 tinuing up the sides and across the fireplace, is a narrow, 

 quivering band of clear glass mosaic. 



cases, in which are stored rare volumes of the world's classics, 

 the poets, the histories, and, in fact, a collection of books 

 such as is rarely found in a country home. The cases are 

 all stained a very dark antique oak, and the furniture is made 

 to match. The ceiling overhead is crossed by heavy beams of 

 dark oak, springing from broad corbels on the sides. On the 

 face of each corbel is painted in clear colors a reproduction of 

 book-marks or coats of arms of the world's famous pub- 

 lishers. There is a broad seat on front of the generous 

 southern window, and here is hung a glass mosaic in tones 

 of deep green and blue, representing a stately old-fashioned 



The Dining-Room Has a Green Striped Wall Covering, Mahogany Furniture and a Banjo Clock 



Above the mantel-shelf is a broad, simple panel of flowered 

 mahogany, dark and rich in tone, serving in the background 

 for the bust of Donatello's inscrutable, unknown lady, resting 

 on a soft ivory-toned bracket in the center of the mahogany 

 panel. The fireplace opening is carried very high, but filled 

 in from the top down part way with a simple grille of 

 wrought iron, in which are set small panes of transparent 

 mica, so that the eye can follow the flames from the fire clear 

 up to the throat of the chimney. The doors leading from 

 the hall are all of crotch-veneer mahogany, of most beautiful 

 flowered grain in single piece, without paneling or molding. 



At the right of the hall is the library, representing the 

 owner's inner convictions and containing his choicest treas- 

 ures. The walls are lined from floor to ceiling with book- 



galleon sailing over the ocean, with the inscription around 

 the outside of the picture paraphrased from Longfellow, 

 "Sail home, my ship, deep freighted with blessings and hope." 

 Beside the window is a very interesting fireplace, built en- 

 tirely of beaten copper, treated so as to bring out the irri- 

 descent blues, reds and purples. The hearth is built of quaint 

 old Moravian tiles, with black-letter inscriptions, book-devices 

 and other interesting bits on the various pieces. The book- 

 cases are carried across the top of the mantel on a sweep, 

 and the broad shelf is supported by a single corbel carved 

 with a head of a monk reaching out over an open book, the 

 Friar Tuck of Robin Hood, a figure that typifies scholastic 

 learning tempered by a due regard for the more material 

 things of this world. 



