AMERICAN 

 HOMES AND GARDENS 



''Indian Ridge" 



The Summer Home of Dr. F. B. Harrington, at Ipswich, Mass. 



By Barr Ferree 



BROAD drive of a thousand feet or so 

 forms the approach up hill to the immense 

 circle before the entrance steps of Dr. F. 

 B. Harrington's summer home at Ipswich. 

 Bordered with lawns on either side, with 

 banks of shrubbery beyond, it forms a 

 very agreeable entrance to a delightful 

 and charming house. Almost a-top a hill, the house enjoys 

 a fine view over the surrounding country, which to those 

 who know it and love it includes some of the most 

 picturesque scenery in Massachusetts. It is a country that 

 invites the picturesque in architectural design, and Messrs. 

 Clark and Russell, architects, of Boston, and Mr. Arthur 



A. Shurtleff, landscape architect of the same city, have be- 

 tween them created a residence and an estate of marked 

 interest and beauty. 



The house is a many-gabled rambling structure, as de- 

 lightfully picturesque in every part as it is picturesquely 

 placed. So completely is this note the dominant one that 

 it is scarcely apparent that here is a main building with a 

 deflected wing — the deflection is clear enough, but the op- 

 posite wing, which is a portion of the main building, is so 

 cleverly varied that the entrance front seems to consist of 

 a two-gabled center with related subsidiary structures on 

 either side. One need not, however, concern oneself with 

 questions of regularity and symmetry in this very pictur- 



The entrance front of the house shows a many-gabled rambling structure 



