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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1910 



One of the many porches attached to the house 



esque grouping. No problems of this sort presented them- 

 selves to the architects who, indeed, burdened themselves 

 with very much the more difficult task of creating harmony 

 out of diversity and of bringing unity out of variety. The 

 very great success that has crowned their work is more 

 than ample justification for the style chosen for this house, 

 which is thoroughly charming in every aspect. 



The two chief features of the entrance front are the 

 main gables, with their projecting roofs and vergeboards. 

 The larger of these is at the extreme left of the main build- 

 ing; the smaller, which is projected further forward, sur- 

 mounts the entrance porch. This last is the simplest of all 

 entrances porches — a platform reached by a flight of stone 

 steps with a column on either side that supports the pro- 

 jecting portion above it, here brought out flush with the 

 beam above the columns, and recessed within for greater 

 floor space for the porch. The walls here, as elsewhere, are 

 without ornamentation, and present only the light gray of 

 the stucco with which they are built. The outside wood- 

 work, it should be added, is stained dark gray. 



On each side of the porch is a large bowed window, hav- 

 ing the plan of a segment of a circle. On the right this 

 immediately adjoins the porch; on the left it is separated 

 from it by a flat piece of wall yielding space for a twin 

 window. Beyond on the right, is a great stone chimney 

 of irregular design built of field stone, and beyond the end 

 wall is the porch, which completely encloses this end of the 

 house, and which is returned on the garden front within. 



The second story overhangs the first to a more or less 

 degree, the extent of the projection varying according to 

 the projection of the various parts of the first story. Over 

 the entrance porch is a little projecting bay window sup- 



The bowling green forms a passage from the house to the garden 



