January, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 29 
with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickel- 
plated plumbing. The third floor is de- 
voted to the extra guest room and bath, 
and also storage room and trunk room. 
The house, which is beautifully situated 
on a site facing a broad avenue lined with 
magnificent trees, is reached from the road- 
way by a broad walk built of red brick laid 
in herring-bone fashion, and extending di- 
rect to the front entrance. The grounds 
surrounding the site are well planted 
with trees, which with their overhanging 
branches form an attractive setting for the 
house, for the landscape at once deter- 
mines the general style and character of 
the house. This is a point which is quite 
essential to the well being of a house from 
an architectural standpoint, and it is a fun- 
damental truth that is very excellently illus- 
trated in this particular house. The sim- 
plicity of the house, both as to its exterior 
design as well as to its interior scheme, is 
wherein the true elegance of the modern 
home is to be found. The grounds sur- 
rounding the house are planted in a semi- 
The dining-room is trimmed with oak finished in a dark brown color formal manner. 
meet other pilasters which are placed at 
the opposite side of the room. The walls 
are covered with a two-toned wall paper in 
an Indian red. ‘The furniture is made to 
match the woodwork, and the chairs are 
covered with a similar tone of Indian red 
leather. The rug is of red with a blue 
border. Broad French windows are built 
at the opposite end of the room from the 
fireplace, which open out on the porch and 
terrace and form easy access to the porch 
and the garden. 
The kitchen and its dependencies are fin- 
ished with yellow pine trim in its natural 
state, and are furnished with all the best 
modern improvements. 
The second story is divided into sleeping- 
rooms and baths. The owner’s suite, con- 
sisting of two rooms and bath, is treated 
with a green color scheme. There is also 
one guest room and bathroom on this floor, 
besides two servants’ bedrooms and bath, 
which are placed over the kitchen end of 
the house and are provided with a private 
stairway to the service part of the house. 
The bathrooms are fitted with white 
enameled wainscotings and are furnished 
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