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Fig, 12—The old style hall 
place, with tiled hearth and facings and finished with a 
Colonial mantel of excellent design and surrounded by a 
massive paneled oyer-mantel, is quite the feature of the room. 
Directly opposite the living-room and across the hall, 
is the dining-room which is trimmed with mahogany. It 
has a paneled wainscoting and a wooden cornice between 
which the walls are covered with a forest decorative paper, 
showing trees, etc. An open fireplace with tile facings and 
hearth has a mantel with a china closet over, forming the 
important characteristic of the room. 
Fig. |14—The Colonial living-room 
Fig. 13—The first-floor plan of the Rogers’ house 
A door opens into the butler’s closet, which is well-fitted 
up, and a second door opens into the kitchen. The kitchen 
is trimmed with yellow pine and is finished with hard oil, 
and is provided with all the best modern conveniences. One 
door leads to a lobby large enough to contain an ice-box, and 
from which access is obtained to the porch, while another 
door opens into the front hall. 
The second floor is trimmed with white pine and is treated 
with ivory-white paint. The walls of each room are deco- 
rated in one distinctive style and color-scheme. 
Fig. 15—Mr. Allfred Rogers’ house at Milton, Massachusetts 
Fig. 16—The second-floor plan of the Rogers’ house 
There is a large open hall and a sewing-room separated 
by an archway, with columns, as well as three bedrooms and 
two bathrooms on this foor. The owner's room has a 
private bathroom and an open fireplace. The bathrooms 
have tiled floors and wainscoting, and they are furnished 
with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickelplated plumbing. 
A private stairway leads to the third Hoor, which contains 
the seryants’ rooms and bath; besides an extra guest-room 
and trunk-room. The heating-apparatus, fuel-rooms, laun- 
dry and cold storage-room are placed in the cellar, which is 
Fig. 17—Reception-room with Sheraton furniture 
built under the entire house. Much planting of shrubs and 
plants has been done about the front entrance, screening 
many of the hard corners. 
The houses described and illustrated in this article are 
of good construction, well-planned, and of good architec- 
tural design, They may not, perhaps, illustrate a definite 
tendency in any one direction, but they unmistakably indicate, 
express and typify the current tendency towards excellence. 
They deserve attentive study and will well repay every atten- 
tion that may be given to them 
Fig. 18—Dining-room with forest paper in Mr. Rogers’ house 
