January, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 9 
A glimpse of the studio garden 
arches with frames of wood. The dining-room is imme- 
diately opposite the drawing-room on the other side of the 
hall. It has a white-painted wainscot and blue-figured two- 
toned paper. The wood mantel contains a fireplace with 
facings of red brick laid in reddish mortar and a similar 
lining. A large oll-gold mirror is above the shelf. As 
elsewhere the furniture here is old and in fine taste. Be- 
yond is the breakfast-room, which is actually a porch similar 
to the one which opens from the drawing-room. Its walls, 
decorated by Mr. French’s sister-in-law, have a yellowish 
tone, with painted garlands of fruits and flowers. An 
Italian terra-cotta Madonna and Child is let into the house 
wall. The easterly archway is projected and trellised as a 
bay window; in the center is a small plaster figure on a 
black marble pedestal; without it is thickly overgrown with 
grape vines. The furniture is of wood painted dark green. 
A larger table top, in lighter green, with a painted 
The chief entrance to the studio 
circle of fruits and leaves, can be adjusted to the smaller 
center table when needed, and when not in use stands against 
the wall. 
At each end of the hall is a door, with narrow window 
openings on either side from floor to ceiling. That on the 
north is the door of entrance; that on the south opens into a 
terrace and overlooks the whole valley below. The archi- 
tecture of this front, which is the side presented to the road, 
is precisely that of the entrance front, save that the separate 
indication of the service rooms is not here apparent. On 
each side of the door is a triple window, one for the drawing- 
room and one for the dining-room; there are five windows in 
the second story and two dormers in the roof, which is 
shingled and has a balustraded summit. At each end is a 
porch, one of which serves as the breakfast-room. On the 
doorsteps are two hydrangeas in red terra-cotta jars. ‘The 
steps descend to a pebbled terrace with a low border of 
‘Lie gate to the studio garden 
The exedra adjoming the studio 
