May, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 179 
A glazed door in one corner opens to the little porch 
on this side of the house. It is used as a breakfast-room, 
and is a cool and delightful place. The architectural 
treatment of the parts here is so simple as to be almost 
bare. This, however, is but to emphasize the decoration 
by means of vines and plants. In one corner is a great 
yellow and green jar of glazed pottery; a lusty gourd has 
taken root within it and clambers lazily toward the roof. 
On the opposite side are oleanders in tubs and boxes. 
The library is quite on the further side of the house, 
and contains a window overlooking the entrance front. 
It is a smallish room, with walls of green grass-cloth. It 
has a Tudor ceiling, the pattern of which is traced in lines 
of stained wood, applied to the plaster. The fireplace has 
facings of Moravian tile, and a hearth of Welsh tile. 
As in the dining-room, a door in one corner leads to a 
brick paved porch, with terrace beyond. On the entrance 
front the opening is walled with a parapet, on which 
stands a long box of geraniums, red and pink, growing 
amid a mass of white annual phlox. The gourd jar here 
is green, and the boxed plants are hydrangeas. The per- 
gola extension is supported by cedar posts, with parapets 
of open cedar work. There is a beautiful outlook here 
across the gently flowered grounds. 
_ I have dwelt at some length on the details of these side 
porches, for they both explain and typify the individual 
character of this delightful house. Their positions and 
dimensions are practically identical, and their general as- 
pect is not unlike. Yet they are distinctly individual and, 
indeed, personal. One has a low front wall with its box 
of bloom. There is a great glazed jar in each, but they 
are not alike in color nor in design. ‘The plants in tubs 
are of different varieties, and even the vines of the per- 
golas are distinct. And with all, there is a delightful free- individuality of effect has been obtained by means of the 
dom and charm in both porches and a quite marked most subtle variations and, in a large measure, by the use 
Angle of entrance front and studio chimney 
The terraced court on the inner front of the house 
