March, 1909 AMERICAN 
Here are two rooms, 
the study, on the en- 
trance front, and the 
library, which over- 
looks the garden. 
The study is 
trimmed with hazel, 
with a high paneled 
wainscoting and 
terra cotta walls 
above. There are 
built-in bookcases 
and a fireplace with 
facings and hearth 
of brown glazed 
tile. The library is 
is designed in the 
Elizabethan _ style, 
and is finished in 
weathered oak. Like 
the other rooms, it 
has a high paneled 
wainscoting, and 
above the walls are 
covered with green 
velour. The fire- 
place has Caen 
stone facings. 
The billiard-room 
occupies the center 
of the house. It is 
trimmed with oak, 
finished in the Flem- 
ish style. It has a 
high batten wainscoting. At one end is a long seat, reaching 
from wall to wall, and elevated a step above the level of the 
main floor. Above it is a massive hooded frieze supported 
on corbel brackets. On one side of the room is a combina- 
tion cabinet used for locker and ball rack, with glass cabi- 
nets overhead. On the opposite side is the fireplace, with 
facings of Moravian tile, a Dutch hood and mantel. 
Interesting as it is to view the fine interior of this house, 
to pass from room to room, to note the convenience of the 
arrangements, the elegance of the furnishings, the agreeable- 
ness of the color com- 
binations, it is but 
simple truth to say that 
the greater interest of 
HOMES AND GARDENS 87 
The entrance front and porte cochére of stone 
can well be described by the single word sumptuous. And 
the house within is not sumptuous, nor does its exterior de- 
sign suggest such a term; it is comfort and convenience, good 
taste and careful selection that distinguishes the interior. 
But without there is a sumptuous growth and blooming, ar- 
ranged, included and inclosed within an entirely adequate 
architectural setting and frame. 
The ground plan of the house suggests a somewhat ir- 
regular structure; as a matter of fact, it is a singularly 
orderly and symmetrical building, consisting of a main por- 
tion in three stories, to one side of which is attached a 
subordinate wing of two stories. On the garden front 
the center of the main building is well projected forward, 
and across the whole of this front is a broad and elabo- 
rate porch which is continued around on one side. It is, 
in fact, more than a mere porch, but a real series of out- 
door rooms applied to the whole of the front and supported by col- 
umns, which give it a true classic character. 
mere detail that both floor and roof are of red tile, but this, as has 
ial 
It is, perhaps, but a 
already been pointed out, is an effective part 
of the color scheme of the exterior. Below 
the great garden porch is a terrace, a spacious 
stretch of glass inclosed with a balustrade, 
open in the center with a quite monumental- 
0 like treatment of steps by which the garden is 
reached. 
The garden is a vast rectangular space, 
with a processional walk in the midst, whose 
center is occupied beds of grass: in the first a 
f mammoth flower bed; in the second a sun- 
=] dial; in the third a pool with water lilies and 
Plan of the second story 
this estate is without the house 
rather than within it. The splen- 
did gardening of “Gellian Court”’ 
other aquatic plants. On either side are 
larger squares of grass, whose borders are richly planted with per- 
ennial flowers, while at stated intervals on the central paths are bay 
trees in white painted tubs and boxes. At the further end the garden 
is inclosed within a high stone wall which abuts against the roadway. 
