56 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1909 
nished with range, store 
pantry, pot closet, and lobby 
large enough to admit an 
icebox. Special attention has 
been given to the kitchen 
and its dependencies. 
The second floor contains 
the owner’s suite, consisting 
of two bedrooms, dressing- 
room and bath. Besides this 
suite there are three bed- 
rooms and a bathroom on 
this floor. All the rooms 
have white-painted trim, 
and each are treated with 
one particular color scheme. 
The bathrooms are tiled 
and are furnished with por- 
celain fixtures and exposed 
nickelplated plumbing. 
The servants’ quarters 
TRUNK Room 5—The inglenook is a feature of the dining-room in the Farnham house 
white enamel trim and with green-striped paper on the 
walls. The staircase is a handsome one with turned 
balustrades and mahogany rail. Soft silk curtains of a 
yellowish green are hung to the windows, over other ones 
of soft muslin. 
The living-room (Fig. 6) has a white enamel trim. 
The walls are covered with Japanese grass cloth of a 
golden hue. The windows have soft white net lace dra- 
peries, and in winter a heavier silk drapery of snuft-brown 
color overhangs the lighter ones of net. The fireplace is 
builz of red brick, and the whole is finished with a mantel 
of Colonial style. 
The den has a brown-stained trim and Indian wall 
coverings in bright coloring, bookcases built in at one side 
and a quaint open fireplace with a mantel. 
The dining-room (Fig. 5) has a recessed inglenook with 
an open fireplace built of red brick with the facings and 
PAM (OF (hie beLoor: hearth of the same. The mantel is paneled and the shelf 
is supported on corbel brackets. Seats are placed on either 
CHAMBER. 
PLAY Roort 
Scare 
and storage-room and the nursery are 
placed in the third floor, while the cellar, 
which extends under the entire depth of the 
house, contains the heating apparatus, fuel 
rooms and cold storage room. 
Mr. James Purdon, of Boston, Mass., 
was the architect of this interesting house. 
When Mr. Farnham decided to build his 
house (Fig. 4) he also chose the Dutch 
Colonial style of architecture as its proto- 
type. Mr. Purdon was also the architect 
selected by Mr. Farnham to carry out his 
ideas in the matter and to develop, so far 
as possible, the particular style chosen. 
The superstructure of frame is covered 
on the exterior with matched sheathing and 
then cedar shingles laid with double courses. 
A feature of some moment is the living 
piazza, separated from the entrance porch. 
The central hall, extending through the 
entire depth of the house, is treated with 6—The living-room of Mr. Farnham’s house has white enamel trim 
