AMERICAN 

 HOMES AND GARDENS 



Volume VII August, 1910 Number 8 . 



"Harbour Court" 



The Residence of Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, Newport, R. I, 



By Barr Ferree 



ARBOUR COURT, the residence of Mrs. 

 John Nicholas Brown at Newport, stands 

 in a beautiful property richly shaded with 

 trees, and finely shrubbed, near the west- 

 ern end of the promontory where most 

 of the great summer palaces and cottages 

 are located. It is precisely the situation 

 for a delightful home, for the natural beauties of the land 

 itself are enhanced by its situation, high above the harbor, 

 affording a prospect of endless beauty and charm. 



And here, as though this was the site of sites for such a 

 home, Messrs. Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, the architects, 

 of Boston and New York, have designed and built a charm- 

 ing house modeled in a very free way on the lesser chateaux 

 and farm houses of Normandy. It is a style that so readily 

 lends itself to the needs of the spacious American country 

 house, that it is strange it has not been more frequently 

 adopted in contemporary American building. Neverthe- 

 less we may be sure that it was not chosen here in any 

 search for novelty. Of all ideas in architecture that is the 



Newport Harbor from the terrace of "Harbour Court" 



