October, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



231 



white mortar with 

 tooled joints. The rest 

 of the building i s 

 beamed. The beam- 

 work is stained a soft 

 brown color, and the 

 panels are filled with 

 stucco, left in its natural 

 silver-gray color. The 

 roof is covered with 

 shingles and stained a 

 brilliant red. 



Upon entering the 

 house one finds one's 

 self in a square hall with 

 the stairs going up at 

 the back of it. Under 

 the stairs, a door leads 

 to the coat-closet, to the 

 kitchen and to the rear 

 stairs. This is arranged 



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4 — Four Bedrooms, Two Maids' Rooms and Two Bath-rooms Occupy 

 the Space on the Second Floor 



on brackets. The small 

 den, opening from the 

 dining-room, is treated 

 with forest-green effect, 

 ami has bookcases built 

 in, paneled scars and an 

 open fireplace. I he but- 

 ler's pantry, forming the 

 connection between the 

 dining-room and the 

 kitchen, is fitted with 

 sink, dressers, drawers, 

 etc. The kitchen, o f 

 large dimensions, is fur- 

 nished with all the mod- 

 ern conveniences, and 

 they are so arranged as 

 to leave the window-side 

 of the kitchen free. 



There is a large, open 

 hall on the second floor, 



so that the master of the house can go to the cellar without from which entrance is made to the four bedrooms and bath- 

 passing through the kitchen, Fig. 6, as is usually the case: room, and to the servants' hall and stairway, which tonus 

 this passage also 



forms an easy access 

 to the front door 

 from the kitchen. 



The hall is 

 trimmed with white 

 pine and treated 

 with white-enamel 

 paint. The staircase 

 has a painted balus- 

 trade and a mahog- 

 any rail. To the left 

 of the hall, and ex- 

 tending the entire 

 depth of the house, 

 is the living-room, 

 Fig. 7, treated in the 

 Colonial style, with 

 white-painted trim, 

 wooden cornice, and 

 a fireplace with fac- 

 ings and hearth of 

 brick, and a mante' 

 placed at one end of 



5 — The English Half-timber Style is the Scheme Adopted for Mr. Coe's House 



access to the two 

 servants' bedrooms. 

 The master's bed- 

 room has a private 

 bathroom attached, 

 and this, as well as 

 the other bathroom. 

 is furnished with 

 porcelain fi x t u r e s 

 and exposed nickel- 

 plated plumbing. 

 The woodwork on 

 this floor is treated 

 with white paint. 

 There are two bed- 

 rooms and bathroom 

 on the third floor. A 

 cemented cellar con- 

 tains the laundry, 

 heating apparatus, 

 fuel-rooms, etc. The 

 house shown in Figs. 

 10 and 11 is after 

 the Colonial stvle. 



the room, while at the opposite side is a broad window-seat and is designed with the detail used in the latter part of the 

 over which is a cluster of windows. French windows at one eighteenth century. The second house illustrated, Figs. 



side of the room open 

 onto a broad loggia; it 

 has a brick floor, and in 

 winter is enclosed with 

 glass and heated. 



The dining-room, 

 Fig. 8, trimmed with 

 Flemish oak, has a 

 paneled wainscoting 

 four feet i n height, 

 above which the wall is 

 covered with a large- 

 figured paper and fin- 

 ished with a wooden 

 cornice. At the east 

 side of the room is a 

 flower-window fi 1 1 e d 

 with growing plants. 

 The fireplace has brick 

 facings and hearth, and 

 a mantel-shelf supported 



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6 — A Large Living-room is the Principal Feature of the First Floor 



5 and 9, is designed in 

 the half-timbered style, 

 with rough beams and 

 plaster panels, while the 

 third house is designed 

 with Spanish feeling. 



Figs. 10 and 12 pre- 

 sent an interesting and 

 attractive house, d e- 

 signed in a simple man- 

 ner in the Colonial style 

 and with square outlines. 

 Tt was built for D. H. 

 Standish, Esq., at Glen 

 Ridge, New Jersey. It 

 is planned to accommo- 

 date a fairlv good-sized 

 family, and the various 

 rooms are arranged 

 so as to give a maxi- 

 mum of air, sunlight. 



