March, 1 910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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The color of the exterior merits attentive study: it pre- 

 sents a careful symphony in white and white tones. The 

 house is built of cream-colored stucco. The cement string 

 course or band between the two stories is white. The ex- 

 terior wood trim, including the window frames and the cor- 

 nice, is a very light shade of pearl, a white, delicately tinged 

 with blue. The base of the porch columns are painted red, 

 the pearl of the wood trim being used for their upper 

 parts. 



The house is entered by a porch which is within its main 

 lines and is an integral part of it. There is a wide central 

 opening, with a column at each end, and a narrow window 

 opening on each side : openings of similar character are on 

 the ends of this projected portion. Originally built and 

 planned as an open porch, a winter's use dictated the pru- 

 dence of enclosing 



the open spaces 

 with glass, and this 

 has been done since 

 the photographs 

 which accompany 

 this article were 

 taken. This glazing 

 has considerably 

 helped the exterior, 

 although it has 

 shielded, somewhat, 

 the brilliant color- 

 ing of the interior, 

 which has been 

 treated in the Pom- 

 peian style, with a 

 broad red dado, 

 while the gray 

 walls and ceiling 

 are painted with 

 Pompeian designs 

 in brilliant color. 

 The floor is cement, 

 in large squares of 

 white and black. 



The center inner 

 wall of the vesti- 

 bule, as it must 

 now be called, is 

 solid, the doorway 

 being to the right 

 and a window to 

 the left. The inner 

 door opens imme- 

 diately to the hall, 

 and with the first 

 step beyond the 

 threshold the 

 classic character 

 which has domi- 



raison d'etre of the two wings is thus clearly apparent: the 

 billiard-room is given light on two sides, and the service 

 department is completely separated from the rest of the 

 house. It is an admirable plan, very beautifully worked 

 out. 



The hall is treated in green and white. The woodwork 

 is white; the walls are lined with green silk damask. There 

 is a low dado in panelled wood, and a somewhat deep cor- 

 nice which supports the geometric ceiling. At the end of the 

 room on the right is the fireplace and mantel. The for- 

 mer has hearth and linings of gray brick; the latter is con- 

 structed of imitation Caen stone, and has a shelf supported 

 by carved figures and a panelled over-mantel. The elec- 

 tric light fixtures depend from the ceiling. There is a 

 Roman table in the center, with a top of polished green 



marble. The other 



The interior of the entrance porch 



furniture is, for the 

 most part, covered 

 with green damask. 

 A green rug covers 

 the hardwood floor. 



The dining-room 

 on the left is separ- 

 ated from the hall 

 by square columns, 

 with a wide open- 

 ing in the center, 

 supported by nar- 

 rower openings on 

 the sides, the lower 

 part of which is 

 filled in with the 

 dado of the hall 

 walls, with da- 

 masked panels 

 above. There is a 

 fine sense of open- 

 ness here, the sep- 

 aration not being 

 accomplished by a 

 partition, but by 

 what is practically 

 a permanent screen 

 open at the top. 

 Low swinging 

 doors are applied 

 to the middle piers, 

 but as these are 

 mostly kept open 

 they are not solid 

 means of separa- 

 tion. 



The dining-room 

 is an apartment of 

 really exquisite 

 charm. It is bril- 



nated the exterior is left behind, and one finds oneself in a 

 modern house, a house that differs in no way from any other 

 modern dwelling save in the interest of the rooms and the 

 individual and characteristic way in which they are finished 

 and furnished. 



As a matter of fact, you not only enter the hall, but you 

 enter the whole house. The chief rooms of the first floor 

 open into each other, so that everything is more or less 

 clearly discernible from the entrance door. To the left is 

 the dining-room; almost in the center are the stairs to the 

 second floor; to the right, and beyond, is an apartment you 

 presently discover to be the billiard-room. And when your 

 examination has been finished you will find that the service 

 rooms and kitchen are in the wing parallel to this last. The 



liantly lighted, the windows, as in the hall, extending to the 

 floor. The farther end has four, two in the end wall and 

 one on each side wall, the whole group admitting a flood 

 of light that is most agreeably arranged. The room is de- 

 signed in the Louis XVI style, and no pains have been 

 spared to make it as consistent as possible. The panelling 

 of the dado and the other woodwork is finished with 

 gray enamel paint. Above are great tapestry panels, 

 chiefly representing wood scenes, in blues, greens, browns 

 and yellows. A narrow cornice supports the plain ceiling. 

 from the center of which depends an elaborate electric light 

 fixture. This has, at the top, six bells of yellowish glass, 

 while from the center depends a brightly jewelled globe. 

 Separate switches permits the lighting of one or both or all 



