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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1910 



the service end of 

 the building. 



The entrance 

 front, as well as the 

 other three sides of 

 the building, is so 

 arranged and de- 

 signed that each 

 may be called "a 

 front" on account 

 of its being so se- 

 questered from the 

 highway The house 

 is planned in an 

 absolutely simple 

 manner, with per- 

 fect directness in 

 every one of its 

 lines and details, 

 and is the work, of 

 Wilson Eyre, the 

 well-known architect 

 of Philadelphia. 



Mr. Eyre has de- 

 signed a long, low structure, two stories in height, with a 

 low sloping roof, broken by simple gables and dormers, 

 which adds to the house a third story. 



The house is a plain rectangular building of rock-faced 

 gray-blue stone, laid up in a random manner, and is almost 

 completely covered with white cement mortar, which allows 

 only part of the stonework to appear through the surface 

 of the walls. The wood trim throughout is painted a soft 

 brown, the sashes ivory-white, the blinds white, and the 

 shutters green. The roof is covered with shingles and is 



stained a dull 

 Indian-red. 



The decorative 

 features of the 

 building are limited 

 to the porches, bay 

 windows and chim- 

 neys. To one side 

 of the entrance 

 porch the main wall 

 is pierced by a 

 long, staircase win- 

 dow. One enters the 

 house with anticipa- 

 tion, since the ex- 

 terior is so strik- 

 ingly beautiful, and 

 is not disappointed, 

 for here one finds 

 light and cheerful- 

 ness — a real home, 

 with a homelike 



„, , atmosphere. 



1 he entrance porch t^i 



^ Ihe entrance is 



direct into a great living-hall, which occupies the main part 

 of the first floor, and extends through from the front to the 

 rear, or the garden side of the house. The walls of this 

 room are tinted a soft mustard color, and the trim is fin- 

 ished in an old ivory-white. The ceiling is beamed. At 

 one end of the room there is a large open fireplace with a 

 paneled mantel extending to the ceiling. At the opposite 

 end to the fireplace, there are three broad steps, which ex- 

 tend across the width of the living-hall, and ascend to a 

 broad platform, from which the dining-room is reached. 



A hooded gateway forms the entrance to the garden 



Steps ascend from the garden to the living-porch 



