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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 19 10 



''Fox Hill Lodge" 



The Summer Home of Mr. Prescott Bigelow, at Manchester, Massachusetts 



By Mary H. Northend 



[SHORT distance back from the main high- 

 way, at a point midway between Manches- 

 ter and Magnolia, one comes upon a most 

 charming httle house, built after the style 

 of an English lodge, ensconced in a setting 

 of close-cropped lawns and shaded by fine 

 old trees. It crowns the crest of a low, 

 broad hill, leveled at the top to make it even with the road- 

 way, and it overlooks at the rear broad stretches of mead- 

 owland that sweep to the water's edge. 



This is "Fox Hill Lodge," the summer home of Mr. 

 Prescott Bigelow, of Boston, Mass., and it was designed 

 by Messrs. Sturgis and Barton, well-known Boston archi- 

 tects. It received its quaint name from the fact that in for- 

 mer days, when the present 

 fashionable North Shore was 

 the haunt of simple village 



folk, this site was said to be the favorite camping ground 

 of the numerous foxes that then inhabited the woodland 

 districts. However this may be, the legend is a pretty one, 

 and the charming house that now graces the site is most 

 appropriately named in consequence. 



The exterior finish is principally of stone and stucco, 

 with the lower story of the front part clapboarded and 

 stained black. The trim of this lower portion is painted 

 white, while the trim of the rest of the house is stained 

 black. Quaint casement windows, in groups of two, three, 

 and four, all opening outward, line the house on all sides, 

 and render the interior bright and cheery, and a great, out- 

 side chimney, built of rough stones and old brick, located 

 at one side, is a striking feature. 



A pretty Dutch door, or- 

 namented with an old-fash- 

 ioned latch, opens from the 

 entrance porch into a small 



First floor plan 



Second floor plan 



