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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1906 



The Day Nursery is Paneled and Has a Gaily Colored Tapestry Frieze 



give it a rich ensemble structurally. And the detailing is 

 rich, as befits the materials, and carried out with a very sure 

 hand and with great beauty of design. The furnishings 

 are quite in keeping with the magnificence of its structure. 

 To the right, under the balcony, is an old English carved 

 mantel of black marble; the dining-room — which is entered 



with columns and pilasters, 

 within which is the mantel, 

 with onyx fireplace and 

 hearth. The coved ceiling 

 is designed in panels with 

 ornament in relief. The 

 inner curtains are of pink 

 silk, very beautiful in tone; 

 the outer curtains are of 

 white lace. The furniture 

 is of gold with pink and 

 white coverings. 



The library is completely 

 separated from the recep- 

 tion-room, and, like it, is 

 entered from the end. It is 

 finished in oak, with built- 

 in book shelves and a 

 curved ceiling with geo- 

 metrical design. The walls 

 are red; the rug is red, and 

 the facing of the wood 

 mantel is square red tile. 



The living-room is fin- 

 ished in white and French 

 gray. At present its walls 

 are papered, but it is pro- 

 posed, at a convenient sea- 

 son, to cover them with 

 wood panels. At the far end is the mantel of wood, with 

 green marble facings and hearth, and an elaborate over- 

 mantel, supported by coupled columns. On each side is a 

 glazed door opening onto the loggia without. On one side 

 is a bay window with a handsome pilastered framework of 

 wood. The white ceiling is divided into three large panels, 



immediately from the hall — is reached by an adjoining door; with plastered beams and bracketed cornice. The immense 



on the other side is a service door; the rooms on the left of 

 the hall are entered through separating passages. The rug 

 in the center is pink and blue; the curtains are of red velvet, 

 and there is much hand- 

 some furniture, richly 

 carved. Two splendid iron 

 lamps depend from the ceil- 

 ing rafters, and a hand- 

 some piece of tapestry and 

 a richly embroidered velvet 

 rug add to the color of the 

 upper parts. It is a room 

 thoroughly splendid in di- 

 mensions, in design and in 

 equipment. 



The left wing is occupied 

 by three rooms, a reception- 

 room, library and living- 

 room. The first of these is 

 on the entrance front; the 

 living-room on the hill 

 front, and the library lies 

 between them. Both the 

 first two rooms are apart- 

 m ents of comparatively 

 moderate size. The recep- 

 tion-room is a beautiful 

 little Louis XVI room, 

 treated chiefly in white, the 

 colors being extremely light 

 and delicate. The w alls 

 have a paneled wainscot 

 with silk panels. At the 

 further end is an alcove 



rug on the hardwood floor is of soft blue-gray and white. 



The dining-room, on the opposite side of the main hall, 

 is a sumptuous apartment, paneled throughout in mahogany. 



The Entrance Front Has Two Wings with an Open Forecourt Containing the Vestibule 



