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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1906 



The Main Living-hall is Oval in Form and Walled from Floor to Ceiling with Selected English Oak 



tectural treatment is of the simplest, Mr. McKim having 

 relied on his knowledge of correct proportion to make it 

 interesting. There is no ornamentation, but simply brick 

 and marble built up in the simplest form. The walls are of 

 black and red Harvard brick, and the base-course, the string- 

 courses, the cornices and the columns of the central portico 

 of white marble. The design has a marked feeling of sim- 

 plicity and strength well suited to the granite coast upon 

 which the house stands. 



It is built with two semi-detached wings after the Georgian 

 style. The east wing is used for the kitchen and servants. 

 The west wing consists of a 

 large open portico, open to 

 the water and closed on the 

 entrance-front. These wings 

 are connected with the main 

 body of the house by short 

 passages one story in height. 



The Ionic colonnade is 

 the chief feature of the en- 

 trance-front. The wall to 

 which it is applied is slightly 

 recessed, giving a brief pro- 

 jection to the end walls, 

 which thus form end pavil- 

 ions. Each of these pavil- 

 ions is lighted by a single 

 window in each story, 

 placed in the center of an 

 ample wall-space. They are 

 simple rectangular windows, 

 with the narrowest of 

 frames, but with a large 

 keystone to emphasize the 

 Hat brick arch that sur- 

 mounts them; save for a 

 small stone panel let into 

 the wall above the lower 

 window, there is no orna- 

 ment applied to these pavil- 



ions, except the single straight 

 string below the upper windows and 

 the very restrained cornice that sur- 

 mounts them. 



The simplicity which distin- 

 guishes the end pavilions also char- 

 acterizes the central wall which 

 connects them. Rectangular open- 

 ings are the rule throughout, save 

 the two small ovals on each side of 

 the portico. The entrance-doorway is 

 thus straightly bounded by a broad, 

 molded frame; it has an orna- 

 mental keystone and a carved band 

 let into the wall above it. There is 

 a window on each side between the 

 adjoining columns,' and five win- 

 dows in the second story. With the 

 exception of the central one, all the 

 windows of this part are narrower 

 than those of the end pavilions. 

 Above the cornice is the attic; the 

 windows once more plainly rec- 

 tangular, but surrounded with 

 bricked frames, with small square 

 upper corners and no keystones. 

 Brick piers, to carry out the column 

 idea and at the ends, complete the 

 design of the front. The treatment 

 that obtains in the center of the 

 house is carried out in the wings. The windows are again 

 rectangular and placed within generous spaces of wall. The 

 ceilings are somewhat lower than in the main part of the 

 house and the cornices somewhat simpler. The low, slop- 

 ing roofs thus take a more definite place in the silhouette 

 than the similar roof of the main building. 



The water-front by no means reproduces the features 

 of the entrance-front, although thoroughly in harmony with 

 it. The conspicuous feature here is the great rounded 

 center, with plain brick pilasters supporting the main cornice. 

 There are no end pavilions, the house extending in an un- 



The Fireplace in the Main Living-hall is of Yorkshire Stone 



