May, 1909 
into bedrooms, consist- 
ing of the owner’s suite 
of two rooms and bath, 
and the two guest rooms 
and bath. The owner’s 
rooms have an open fire- 
place with tiled facings 
and mantel. The bath- 
rooms have porcelain 
fixtures and exposed 
nickelplated plumbing. 
This floor also contains 
the servants’ quarters 
and bath, which are 
placed over the kitchen 
extension and are 
reached from a private 
stairway from the 
kitchen. 
The third floor is de- 
voted to an open attic, 
which is fitted up with a 
stage for amusement 
purposes. <A _ heating 
apparatus, fuel rooms and cold-storage space is provided in 
the cellar. 
The interior decorations of the house, including the fur- 
nishings, wall decorations, hangings and rugs of each room, 
have been. carried out to maintain an effect of harmony in 
color throughout the house. 
The merits of this house should be apparent to every 
reader. First and foremost, it is picturesque in design. It is 
an orderly picturesqueness, if I may use the phrase, for, 
while the silhouette offers a varied grouping of gables and 
roofing, it is, on the whole, thoroughly well ordered and 
carried out with marked restraint. But the picturesque ex- 
terior is directly derived from the picturesque plan, the suc- 
cess of which is the foundation of the success of the whole. 
Thus the entrance is effected by means of a porch that stands 
at the base of a recessed wall. This, in its turn, is buttressed 
by two projecting wings, each of which has its own gable, 
which, being merged into the bolder lines of the main roof, 
give an immensely picturesque effect to the entrance front. 
The plan is developed in a most interesting way.  Di- 
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rectly in face of the en- 
trance passage or gal- 
lery is the dining-room, 
overlooking the terrace 
on the inner front. On 
one side is the living- 
room, which, as_ has 
been said, occupies the 
whole of one wing of 
the house. On the other 
side is the hall, with the 
staircase in one corner 
arranged in a projection 
built between the main 
structure and the kitchen 
wing. The latter is ar- 
ticulated with the main 
part by means of a pas- 
sage and butler’s pan- 
try. The kitchen wing, 
with the kitchen and 
laundry below and the 
servants bedrooms 
above, is, indeed, a ser- 
vice wing of quite generous dimensions, and while frankly 
expressing what it is in the reality, is thoroughly in harmony 
with the generally picturesque quality of the whole. 
One need, indeed, scarcely to advance further to discover 
the chief excellencies of this delightful house, for these two 
points, the plan and the exterior treatment, cover the most 
essential aspects of good design in home building. But the 
photographs of the interior and the brief descriptive notes 
relating to it show that, in every aspect, the house has com- 
mendable qualities, qualities the more marked and the more 
striking because here given such straightforward and ap- 
parent character. 
The scale of the house is, within its specified limits, of the 
most generous description. [he rooms are ample in size; 
they are disposed in a broad way, and are arranged so as 
to produce an agreeable ettect when seen within, either sepa- 
rately or en suite. ‘The terrace and porch on the interfront 
are, moreover, real expansions of the house, and not only add 
to the available floor space for living purposes, but help very 
materially in the picturesque character of the exterior. 
The recess staircase of the hall 
The dining-room jis finished with a white painted trim 
