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cramping the site. It is built of Harvard brick with white 
marble trimmings, and is two stories in height, with a pitched 
roof that contains the attic-story. In plan it is H-shaped, 
with projecting wings, front and back; on the left is a large 
L, with the longer member brought forward on the entrance 
front, for the accommodation of the service-rooms. 
The exterior parts have been studied with that rare care 
that gives results without hinting the way in which they 
have been achieved. ‘The white marble trim has been em- 
ployed in a delightfully restrained yet completely ample 
manner. Its most conspicuous use is in the monumental en- 
trance doorway, a stately composition of two Roman Doric 
columns supporting an entablature and curved pediment, 
the latter being broken in the center to provide space for 
a decorative cartouche, which is the single piece of applied 
ornament on the whole exterior. This handsome frame 
does not, however, stand alone. It rises immediately above 
a terrace, floored with red brick, laid in herring-bone fashion; 
it is reached by wide marble steps and enclosed within a 
marble balustrade. Other than these parts the front offers 
only windows and window-frames. The latter are of wood, 
painted white; the sills are everywhere of white marble, as 
are the lintels in the first story; in the second story the lintels 
are flat brick arches with marble keystones. ‘The cornice is 
simply dentaled, and of wood, and the quoins on the corners 
of the pavilions are built up of brick, a surface modeling 
that helps but which does not intrude. 
The admirable study lavished on the important parts of 
this front is repeated in the minor details. In the wing that 
connects the main portion of the house with the longer arm 
of the service building is a small door that admits to that 
department. It is but a minor feature, but is very well done. 
The door stands at the top of a small flight of marble steps; 
it is provided with a simple iron railing with brass orna- 
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ments. ‘The doorway has but its frame, but this is sur- 
mounted with its hood, built of wood and painted white, a 
simple little pediment, open in the center, below, and sup- 
ported on two plainly molded corbels. All the front of the 
house is beautifully planted with evergreens, rhododendrons 
and other shrubs. 
The entrance front is elevated above the surrounding 
ground and the outer roadway by but a foot or two of 
brick base; the inner parts are supported by a terrace that, 
on the rear, rises high above the outer lower ground. It 
has a brick retaining wall, capped with a band of white 
marble. Immediately in the rear this space develops into a 
wide terrace, with paths of brick and broad stretches of 
grass. Architecturally the two main fronts of the house 
are identical in design, the doorways and window treatment 
in both being the same. Here, however, there is no enclos- 
ing balustrade, but one steps directly from the door onto 
the bricked path; on either side is a marble seat, and beyond 
is a grouping of sago palms. It is very soft and pleasant 
here, the outlook being into the grove of trees immediately 
below the terrace, and the architecture being at once so 
simple and so refined. The trees may be reached by a great 
flight of steps that descend from the center of the terrace; 
they have red brick risers and white marble treads. At 
the head of the steps are two sleeping lions, and above them, 
on the terrace, and at each corner, is a superb white mar- 
ble vase. Save for a border of low-clipped box there is no 
other planting here. In addition to the terraces, front and 
back, the house has two porches. The larger of these is 
on the end of the left of the rear terrace and covers most 
of that side. It is a broad and spacious porch, with a 
roof supported on plain columns; it has much the general 
character of an outdoor sitting-room. There is a smaller 
porch on the opposite end in the corner by the dining- 
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