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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1 910 



fleeted service 

 wing is the 

 servants' suite, 

 consisting of a 

 bedroom, serv- 

 ants' dining 

 hall, and 

 kitchen, with 

 the laundry at 

 the farthest 

 end. All of 

 these rooms 

 are reached by 

 a corridor that 

 extends along 

 the entrance 

 front. Men- 

 tion should 

 also be made 

 of the man's 

 room and the 

 housekeeper' s 

 room, both of 

 which adjoin 

 the office. 



The garden- 

 e r ' s cottage 

 and the stable 

 call for some 

 mention. The 

 former is a 

 pleasant little 

 shingled house, 

 two stories in 

 height, with a 

 low pointed 

 roof, that is 

 carried over 



the second story windows in gentle curves, giving a char 

 acteristic outline. The house is shingled throughout 



The gardener's cottage 



convenience or 

 luxury; yet it 

 is essentially a 

 "home" house, 

 a simple, un- 

 p r e t e n tious 

 structure, s o 

 far as a house 

 of this size 

 can be desig- 

 nated as sim- 

 ple and unpre- 

 tentious. Un- 

 mistakably a 

 house built for 

 comfort, it 

 avoids, in a 

 quite striking 

 degree, any 

 character o f 

 pretense, any 

 undue orna- 

 mentation, any 

 unnecess a r y 

 decoration, any 

 unessential en- 

 richment o f 

 parts, and, 

 very particu- 

 larly it should 

 be noted, the 

 modern crime 

 o f over-fur- 

 nishing. 



It is a com- 

 fortable house 

 and therefore 

 a good one. It 

 is comfortable because that was the prevailing thought, the 

 leading motive, of its upbuilding. And it is good because 



The stable is an elaborate structure, built around three this comfort has been given acceptable and graceful form 

 sides of an open Court, the first, or entrance, side of which by the architects, who, at every point, have risen to the de- 

 is enclosed within a solid fence. The gables of the roof are mands of their problem and have solved each difficulty in 



cleverly managed, and form an agreeable grouping. The 

 building is built with a rough sawed frame showing on the 

 exterior, and lined with hard pine planks, planed and var- 

 nished on the inside, but left rough on the outside. The 

 whole exterior is stained dark brown. 



There is nothing wanting in this place, either in comfort. 



a plain, straightforward, direct and satisfying manner. 



To a very great extent this is the true essence of house- 

 building. It compels success, because no other end than 

 success can be reached if this path is faithfully followed. 

 "Fouracre" is a place that will well repay study for it am- 

 ply merits careful scrutiny. 



