1909 
July, 
AVERTCAN HOMES; AND GARDENS 
Great oak overshadowing the garden 
will in time, no doubt, be lusciously covered with vines. Al- 
ready there has been a fine growing of rhododendrons at the 
base of the house by the entrance roadway, a veritable 
thicket broken only for the in-planting of two rare old box 
trees of most unusual form and growth. The drawing-room 
porch has its own little outer steps by which it may be 
reached from the roadway. ‘The steps are of flagstones, 
the platform of red brick laid in herring-bone pattern, 
The living-room porch and its floral treatment 
and a lion lies asleep on the right-hand pedestal. The 
house is entered by a glazed vestibule exterior to the house 
and beneath the carriage porch. The hall is a square room, 
the walls of which are completely lined with wood in 
small panels painted white. The plain ceiling has an orna- 
mental centerpiece in plaster, from which depends a bronze 
hanging-lamp. The fireplace has a mantel of black and yel- 
low marble; with a hearth of the same beautiful stone inlaid 
The living-room is lighted on three sides and is finished in French gray 
