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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1 910 



The second house, illustrated in Figures 7, 8, and 9, 

 is the home of Robert S. Smith, at Kenilworth, 111. It has 

 a pleasant exterior appearance, with wide stained brown 

 clapboards for the first story, and brown stained half tim- 

 ber work, with white plaster panels, for the second and 

 third stories. A small entrance porch is built at the front 

 of the house, while the living-porch is built at the side; the 

 entrance doors, opening from both the living- and the din- 

 ing-room. 



The entrance to the hall is reached through the vestibule. 



trimmed with quarter-sawn white oak. The woodwork in the 

 living-room is finished in a weathered oak. The walls have a 

 sand-coated finish and are tinted a soft, dark brown. This 

 living-room has a beamed ceiling, and an open fireplace, 

 with brick facings, laid with i j4x8x4-inch impervious, 

 dark brown brick, and with joints raked out. The fire- 

 place is finished with a five-inch shelf supported on six 

 carved brackets. The dining-room is trimmed with light 

 English oak, and it has a paneled wainscoting six feet in 

 height, with a sideboard built in to correspond, and a 



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2 — The home of Mr. Lawrence Buck. 



This vestibule 

 manner with 

 heavy wood cornice 

 extending around 

 the wall at the in- 

 tersection of the 

 walls and ceiling. 

 The reception-room 

 to the right of the 

 entrance is trimmed 

 with Honduras ma- 

 hogany, and it has 

 a plaster cornice and 

 pilaster trim, and 

 architraves extending 

 around the room. 

 Ornamental glass 

 doors are placed be- 

 tween the reception- 

 room and hall. Both 

 the living-room and 

 dining-room arc 



and hall are 

 sawn white 



trimmed in a handsome 

 oak, and each has a 



Fig. 3 — The first floor plan. 



beamed ceiling. The walls above the wainscoting are of 



sand-coated plaster, tinted a Delpht blue. 



The kitchen, pantry, and butler's closet are trimmed 



with white oak fin- 

 ished natural. The 

 walls a r e wain- 

 scoted six feet in 

 height with cement, 

 which is lined off to 

 imitate two by six 

 tile, and is finished 

 with white enam- 

 eled paint. All the 

 floors on the first 

 story are of quar- 

 ter-sawn oak. The 

 second story has a 

 c o m b i nation of 

 white enamel and 

 mahogany trim. 

 The doors, window- 

 Fig. 4 — The second floor plan. stops and stools 



