380 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS October, 1909 
The den is paneled in oak 
mantel has facings, lining and hearth of red brick, and brass 
andirons and fender. The window-curtains are in silk ap- 
pliqué in rich tones of browns and gold. 
The dining-room is on the opposite side of the great hall. 
Its general treatment is similar to that of the library. That 
is to say, the walls are paneled to the ceiling, which has 
a decorated oval within an ornamental frame. The mantel 
is Caen stone, and the fireplace has elaborately designed 
andirons of wrought iron. ‘The room is, however, intensely 
individual in treatment and in design, and is in no sense a 
repetition of the library. The window-curtains are of figured 
green silk damask, and the antique furniture has seats of 
dark green leather. ‘The sidelights are of silver, and in 
two corners are great silver altar-lights. A superb piece of 
Chinese silk embroidery is hung against one of the walls. 
The breakfast-room occupies one of the pavilions of the 
entrance front. It has a low wainscot of wood, painted 
white, as in the other woodwork of the room. Above, the 
walls are hung with a light green paper in two tones. 
The mantel is wood with red brick facings, lining and 
hearth; the fireplace has brass andirons. The curtains are 
green and blue silk and the chairs are the old-fashioned 
rush-bottom kind. The sidelights are bronze. 
The chief external feature of the estate is the Italian 
garden. ‘This lies directly before the entrance door, on the 
farther side of the road by which the house is reached. 
It is entirely enclosed within a wall, built of Harvard brick, 
and without ornamental features of any sort save the plain 
piers at the entrance, with their simple caps of stone. The 
coping of the wall elsewhere is of brick. The entrance is 
effected by means of a low flight of marble steps, the en- 
closing piers of. which have sloping marble slabs. At the 
base are two seated lions holding upright shields. It is 
extremely simple, but immensely effective. 
The garden within has been arranged with fine taste. In 
a general sense it is cruciform in plan, and consists of a 
center running directly out from the entrance and two wings 
or transepts, applied to the middle of each side. The chief 
ornamentel features are confined to the center, which is 
finished with semicircular ends, front and back. At the 
farthest end the vista is closed with a semicircular pergola, 
of white Ionic columns with rafters stained brown. This is 
raised above the general level by several marble steps and 
has a floor of Welsh tile. 
In the center of the garden is an octagonal basin, in the 
The dining-room has a distinct individuality of its own 
