December, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Three great rooms open from the corridor. The first, 

 nearest the entrance front, is the living-room. The wood is 

 cedar, the wainscot, pilasters, cornice, door and window 

 frames, and ceilings all being of this beautiful wood. The 

 walls are paneled in green silk, which gives the predominating 

 color to the rug and furnishings. The drawing-room ad- 

 joins the living-room and occupies the center of the main 

 part of the river front. It is treated in ivory white and gold, 

 the walls being paneled throughout in ivory white, with 

 gilded moldings and ornaments. There are richly interlaced 

 gilded panels over the doorways with paintings inserted 

 within them. The mantel is of mottled purple and white 

 marble, and has a built-in mirror above it. The richly gilt 



nounced to be unnoticed. Everything that could possibly be 

 imagined for convenience in serving is here in more than 

 ample abundance. The pantry is almost as large as many 

 New York apartments, with a counter and wash bowls be- 

 neath the window and great rows of glazed closets around 

 the other walls. The kitchen and serving-room, the refrig- 

 erator and ice box, the various rooms for various distinct 

 purposes, the servants' dining-room — all these and many 

 other rooms are here, with an ampleness almost overwhelm- 

 ing and with fittings that leave nothing to be desired. 



Yet the rooms of this great first floor are not exhausted. 

 The breakfast room is green and white, the woodwork 

 painted white, the walls covered with Nile green cloth. There 





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The Inner Front Contains the Porte-cochere and a Minor Entrance Which Is Scarcely Less Stately than 



that of the Formal Entrance-front 



chandeliers depend from ornamental reliefs in the otherwise 

 plain ceiling. The furniture is tapestry and gold and the 

 rug is of light colors to harmonize with the general tone of 

 the room. The curtains, both at the doors and windows, are 

 yellow and gold. 



The dining-room completes this great suite of apartments. 

 It has a high wainscot of mahogany, paneled in rectangles, 

 above which is a broad tapestry freize. The tapestry curtains 

 of the doors and windows are similar to it in tone and design, 

 and, with it, give the color to the room. The ceiling is 

 beamed with rather closely set beams and the cornice is 

 mahogany like the other woodwork. The room is lighted 

 by the clusters of lights applied to the wainscot. 



It seems hardly necessary to go beyond into the pantry and 

 service rooms, yet the completeness of these parts is too pro- 



is a wood cornice and a cove below the ceiling. The wood 

 mantel has facings of mottled white marble. Adjoining is 

 the morning-room. It is finished in quartered oak, with 

 walls papered in red stripes of two shades, one being very 

 dark. There is a quartered oak wainscot and a white cor- 

 nice. The curtains and furniture are red and gold. 



The library is a splendid apartment on the right of the hall 

 and is entered directly from it; it is thus somewhat removed 

 from the other great apartments. In a sense it is library and 

 billiard room combined, since a billiard table stands in it. 

 For the most part its walls are lined with bookcases, reach- 

 ing almost to the tops of the doors. Above, the walls are 

 covered with leather, applied in large square panel-like 

 pieces. There is a richly coffered ceiling in red gold. The 

 curtains are green and brown. 



