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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
September, 1909 
‘“Weldacre,’ the Home of George E. Smith, Esq. 
Philips Beach, Massachusetts 
By Josephine Balche 
CHARMING house, designed by Guy 
Lowell, architect, of Boston, Mass., 1s 
“Weldacre,”’ the home of George E. 
Smith, Esq., at Philips Beach, Mass. It is 
delightfully environed with spacious lawns 
and overlooks the ocean. Its walls are 
built of red brick, laid in white mortar, and 
the shingles of the roof have been left to weather finish. It 
is a house of quiet beauty, its fine brick walls being built 
with rare taste and a discriminating appreciation of the 
uses of brick in domestic architecture. They are plain solid 
walls, it is true, but walls built to enclose a house, and bare 
of ornament, as brick walls often rightly are, save for the 
window arches and hoods, and a band of brick set upright 
between the horizontal courses, just below the windows of 
the second story. It is an interesting study in brick construc- 
tion, since the chief effect of the exterior is directly due to 
its broad plain spaces and quiet massiveness. Yet not com- 
pletely so, for the roof counts in the design, as every roof 
should in an isolated house such as this is. A fine, strong, 
The stairs follow a semi-circular wall above the entrance doorway 
