April, 19 lO 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



149 



The Residence of Stephen L. Bartlett, Esq., 



Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 



By Paul Thurston. 



^HIS fine Colonial house is one recently com- 

 pleted at Chestnut Hill, Mass., for Ste- 

 phen L. Bartlett, Esq. It stands upon a 

 knoll well back from the roadway, with a 

 winding driveway leading up to the porte- 

 cochere built at the side of the house, 

 while a circular walk coming in at the op- 

 posite side of the estate leads to the front door placed in 

 the center of the building. The main living-porch is built 

 at the rear of the house, and as the descent at the rear of 

 the property is quite sudden, it permits of a widespread 

 vista of the valley below and the entire surrounding coun- 

 try. The principal feature of the exterior of the house 

 is the portico in the center of the front of the building, 

 supported on fluted columns with Ionic capitals. The main 

 building is covered with clapboards throughout, and painted 

 a Colonial yellow, while the portico and the pilasters at 

 the corner of the 

 building, and all 

 the trimmings 

 throughout are 

 painted ivory- 

 white. A feature 

 of the second story 

 is the circular 

 headed windows. 

 The roof is well 

 broken by numer- 

 ous dormers built 

 in at the face line 

 of the building, and 

 between these an 

 ornamental balu^ 

 trade is constructed. 

 The main hall is 

 entered directly 



from the front por- 

 tico, and extends 

 nearly through the 

 entire depth of the 

 house. The plan of 

 the interior forms 

 a systematic ar- 

 rangement, and the 

 scheme adopted is to 

 give the rooms light 

 from at least two 

 sides, and as a spa- 

 cious effect was de- 

 sired for the inte- 

 rior, much space 

 has been given to 

 the hall. The cen- 

 tral hall opens up 

 through the three 



The portico at the front of the house. 



Stories of the house, and the staircase ascends with 

 a sweeping balustrade to the second story. The hall is 

 trimmed in a handsome manner with mahogany, and it has 

 a paneled wainscoting and a beamed ceiling. The open- 

 ings at all the angles in the hall have fluted pilasters with 

 Corinthian capitals. Opposite the staircase is built the 

 open fireplace, furnished with marble facings and hearth, 

 and a carved mantle. The walls of the hall are covered 

 with Japanese leather in a green effect. To the left of 

 the entrance is the reception-room, which faces the front 

 of the house. The room is oval in form, is stately, and 

 .is treated with yellow, white and green. Its walls are 

 paneled. To the right of the entrance is the morning- 

 room, which is treated in ivory-white. The walls are pan- 

 eled from the fioor to the ceiling, and have a pilaster 

 effect. The pilasters are fluted, and are finished with 

 carved capitals blending into the frieze, which extends 



around the room. 

 The room is strict- 

 ly Colonial, with a 

 low paneled wains- 

 coting, above which 

 the walls are cov- 

 ered with a crimson 

 velvet. At one end 

 of the room there 

 is an open fireplace 

 furnished with 

 white tile hearth 

 and facings, and a 

 mantel with a pan- 

 eled overmantel. 

 Archways built at 

 either side of the 

 fireplace shorten 

 the length of the 

 room and give it a 

 more uniform ef- 

 fect. 



The library is 

 trimmed with oak, 

 and it has a paneled 

 wainscoting, ceil- 

 ing, beams, book- 

 cases built in, a bay- 

 window with a win- 

 dow seat, and an 

 open fireplace with 

 blue tile facings 

 and hearth and 

 mantel. The walls 

 above the wainscot- 

 ing are covered 

 with blue burlap. 

 The conservatory 



