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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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It thus consists, in a sense, of a main building and a wing, an 

 irregularity in planning to which the style chosen as a model 

 readily lends itself. The three chief rooms, together with 

 the hall, the vestibule and an office, are located in the main 

 structure. The wing is cut in two by a vaulted passage that 

 serves as a carriage entrance; the half adjoining the main 

 building is used as dressing and waiting rooms, while store 

 rooms and laundries occupy the farthest end. The kitchen, 

 with an elaborate appendage of minor rooms, is in a wing 

 at right angles to this, which abuts against the main build- 

 ing. Put into words, the plan may seem quite irregular, 

 and indeed this is entirely true, yet it has been developed in 

 an extraordinarily happy manner, and is at once interesting 

 as a plan and successful and desirable in its serviceability 

 and utility. 



Very graceful and delightful is the architectural expres- 

 sion given to this plan. The house is built of brick, over 

 which is floated a coating of cement, warm gray in color. 

 The trimmings, which are strictly architectural in their 

 scope, are limited to the door and the window frames, while 

 the quoins of the corners and the string courses are of In- 

 diana limestone. The roofs are of slate, laid in the Euro- 

 pean manner; that is, with thicker courses at the eaves, and 

 courses of diminishing thicknesses towards the ridge. 



The basic elements that enter into the design of this 

 house are now fully disclosed. There is an original floor 

 plan, seemingly irregular in arrangement, but actually ad- 

 mirably adapted to the internal needs of the dwelling, 

 . There are simple materials used in the superstructure. 

 And there is, above all, a mobile style, capable of fine adap- 

 tation to precisely this kind of a ground plan. It is a style, 

 moreover, which achieves its effect by very simple means, 



The hall 



The library 



