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The house is built in keeping with the contour of its site 
The Country Seat of Charles S. Brown, Esq. 
Mount Kisco, New York 
By Charles Chauncey 
$37 NE of the newer houses which have been 
built at Mt. Kisco, New York, is the one 
recently erected for Mr. Brown, from 
plans prepared by Albro and Lindeberg, 
architects, of New York City. The house 
is particularly interesting and it presents 
many unique features, for the whole place 
is happy and suggestive of an atmosphere which seems to be 
natural and in keeping with its surroundings, and at the same 
time meets the ideal as to the climatic and esthetic require- 
ments of the American home. 
Mr. Brown’s house is a very excellent example of this par- 
ticular style of house, and it is built with the effect of its 
rising out of the site which is a natural one of rocks and 
sloping landscape. ‘he idea which has been paramount in 
the mind of the architects has been to design the house so 
that it will conform with the contour of its site. For instance, 
when it was decided to bring in a sweeping road from the 
highway to the front door it was found 
impossible to reach the level of the front 
door by any sort of a proper grade, so 
it was deemed feasible to bring the 
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driveway in at the level of the basement and spring an arch- 
way over the porte-cochere, which would form a support to 
the service end of the house, and at the same time form an en- 
trance and vestibule from which a broad flight of stairs rise 
to the level of the first floor. 
The main walls of the house are built of rough fieldstone 
taken from the site and laid up in white mortar with wide 
mortar joints. The effect is most attractive for the reason 
that it has the appearance of the building really belonging 
to the site and that it was a part of it. The severity of the 
exterior color tone, if there be any, is softened by the half- 
timbered work with its soft brown stained half-timbers and 
the soft gray plaster work. ‘The roof is the most unusual 
feature of the house, and the idea has been to use a device 
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