48 AMERICAN HOMES “AND GARDENS 
February, 1909 
The living-room and library is finished in French gray and white; yellow curtains give the real color note 
front as well as on the entrance side; each end panel con- 
tains three windows, reaching to the floor, with broad, firm 
frames and keystones rising above the uppermost molding. 
Above are four windows, smaller and without the large 
frames of the first story; the central windows in each group 
descend to the floor and open on to balconies. There are 
three windows in the central panel over the loggia; and 
above is the roof, in a splendid stretch of unbroken surface, 
the dormers and chimneys being left for the entrance front. 
It is an immensely dignified composition, beautifully pro- 
portioned in every part, entirely adequate as an ornamental 
exterior, an imposing front of quiet unusual stateliness. 
Thus the structure of the house and the architectural treat- 
ment of its exterior. My notes would, however, be quite 
inadequate without reference to the magnificent terrace that 
is not only a conspicuous part of this front, but which really 
supports and incloses the whole building on this side. It 
is about sixty feet wide, and is supported by a stone wall that 
rises solidly to a flat, plain coping. It is abundantly supplied 
with stone benches and ornamental jars and vases; its sur- 
face is beautifully grassed. Great flights of steps lead down 
to the lower levels north and south. On the north they ex- 
tend to a vast lower lawn, and on the south to the flower 
garden. The cement wall which inclosed the kitchen wing 
on the entrance front reappears here in a similar form, but 
with large segmental arched openings, filled in with trellis 
screens, in addition to the applied trellis work in the wall. 
This space forms the kitchen yard and is amply sufficient for 
all service uses. 
The flower garden on the south of the house is a vast 
and beautiful square, laid out in a formal manner, with a 
central circular pool, and rectangular paths with insets at 
the corners that help to give it characteristic form. A broad 
path is continued wholly around the central portion and con- 
ducts to other parts of the grounds. Very gay and beautiful 
it is here in the height of the summer season, when all the 
surrounding countryside is fully decked with its mantle and 
crown of green. Then this charming place is in the heydey of 
its beauty, and every part seems to contribute some essential 
to the completeness of the whole picture. 
The stately character which dominates the exterior of this 
house is amplified and developed in the interior. The gen- 
eral impression is quite palatial in the ample size and fine pro- 
portions of the rooms, in the vaulted ceilings, and the treat- 
ment of the whole. All the public portions are treated in a 
quiet tone of French gray with white woodwork, a combina- 
tion that makes for coolness and dignity, and affords a fine 
background for more distinctive coloring in the furniture and 
draperies. 
The main staircase immediately adjoins the entrance door, 
giving space for a hall in the center of the house that opens 
on to the terrace loggia. The large high windows are sur- 
mounted with round lunettes. The ceiling is an elliptical 
vault, supported by pilasters against the walls and by free 
