The terrace front overlooks the lawn, with a marvelous view beyond 
situation, a house that belongs here. It is very well studied, 
but with that supreme care that gives no hint of it. Now 
that it has been built one realizes that any other sort of a 
house than this would have been impossible in this situation, 
and, one may also believe, quite impossible of occupancy by 
the distinguished artist whose loving care and fine apprecia- 
tion of the beautiful has embowered the house with grounds 
and plantings of unusual interest and beauty. 
Notwithstanding the importance of the house in any coun- 
try region, it is but the simple truth to say that one lives in 
the Berkshires for the outdcor beauty and not for the ele- 
gance and costliness of the houses. Mr. French has de- 
veloped this idea with singular beauty and complete success. 
There is no vast estate decoration, no formal gardening in 
an architectural sense, but, what is very much more delight- 
ful, a multitude of interesting spots and unexpected beauty, 
The hall, with its fine old furniture and tapestry paper 
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some of them related to each other in a connecting sense, 
some seemingly sporadic, yet all distinguished by an har- 
monious feeling for beauty that is at once distinctive and 
penetrating. In short, the mind of the artist, his creative 
sense, his feeling tor beauty, his love for nature are abun- 
dantly apparent at every point. This is the supreme quality 
of this beautiful estate, a quality as rare as it is fine; for one 
realizes, as one wanders through these grounds, that here 
is something beyond the unusual, and actually in the realm 
of the artistic. 
Beyond the house is the studio. ‘This is a rectangular 
building with lofty windows and high, shingled, skylighted 
roof, carrying a central louver. On the north a lower part 
serves as a reception-room. Here, in the center, is a door- 
way, with a high glazed semi-circular tympanum rising above 
the cornice. As in the main house the walls are plain; on 
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