March, 1909 
ELLIAN COURT” occupies the compara- 
tively modest area of about twenty acres 
among the hills of Tarrytown-on-the-Hud- 
son, a beautiful village so close to the city 
of New York as to be almost literally a 
metropolitan suburb. It is a place of rare 
charm, a site beautiful in itself, treated and 
developed in a highly interesting manner. Much of the 
original growth of trees has been cleared away and the land 
newly planted with fruit trees and many plants and shrubs. 
Here and there a few fine old trees still remain, chiefly elms 
and chestnuts, while the remoter parts are heavily wooded 
with the mixed growth which is characteristic of the high- 
jands of the Hudson. 
The grounds are inclosed within a high wall, near one end 
of which is the entrance to the serpentine drive by which the 
house is reached. The mansion is close to the southern edge 
of the property, scarce more than two hundred feet from the 
roadway. The site on which it stands is by no means the 
highest within the estate, but it is sufficiently high to permit 
of good drainage in every direction. The entrance driveway 
passes beneath the porte cochére and is thence continued to 
the stable beyond 
the house. 
The mansion is 
built of local granite 
from an old quarry, 
and is a stone that 
easily lends itself 
ft the JLtalian 
style in which this 
building was de- 
signed by its archi- 
tects, Messrs. Janes 
& Leo, of New 
York. The roofs of 
Spanish tiles consti- 
tute an integral part 
in the color scheme 
of the exterior. 
Entering the 
house from beneath 
the porte cochére 
admission is gained 
to the entrance hall 
through a vestibule. 
This hall is a stately 
and dignified apart- 
ment, octagonal in 
plan and sur- 
mounted with a 
domed ceiling. The 
mosaic floor has a 
patterned border 
and the walls are 
in imitation Caen 
stone. The architec- 
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Notable American Homes 
By Barr Ferree 
“Gellian Court:” the Country Seat of Emil Berolzheimer, Esq., 
Tarrytown, New York 
tural treatment is simple but expressive. A somewhat 
severe cornice is upheld by Roman Doric columns that are 
engaged in the corners of the octagon. A marble bench 
stands before the domed niche, and a Roman table, likewise 
of marble, occupies the center of the room. ‘The electric 
lights are hidden behind the cornice at the base of the dome 
and form a highly effective method of lighting. 
To the left is the living-hall, one end of which is filled with 
the main staircase. The lower part of the walls, to about 
the height of seven feet, have a paneled wainscoting painted 
with white enamel, with which all of the woodwork of this 
room is treated. Above the wainscot the walls are covered 
with yellow brocaded silk. ‘The ceiling is beamed, and, like 
the woodwork, is white. The fireplace has facings and 
hearth of buff brick and an overmantel of Caen stone. The 
stairway, which is completely open to the hall, is built with 
broad landings and has white enameled balusters and treads 
and a mahogany rail. The floor is of hard wood, on the 
center of which is laid a great rug. The color scheme is 
extraordinarily bright and cheerful, as necessarily follows 
from the combination of white and yellow, the prevailing 
colors cf the apartment. 
Dae | 
A shady resting place beneath the trees 
