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treatment; for each 
of the two ends are 
treated differently. 
That towards the 
entrance front has a 
balcony in the sec- 
ond floor, entered 
by three round 
arches; while the 
other has a roofed 
veranda on the 
ground floor, con- 
tinued around on the 
inner side. Above it 
are two rectangular 
windows which, 
with a dormer in the 
roof above each end, 
complete the chief 
features of this care- 
fully studied front. 
It is quite easy to 
see wherein the 
charm of this house 
lies. It is of mod- 
erate size, and hence 
makes no appeal by 
reason of its dimen- 
sions. But it is a 
house very carefully 
studied in every 
part. It is designed 
with as little use of 
ornamental detail 
as possible, yet the 
ornament that is 
used is well chosen, 
well designed and 
thoroughly well 
adopted to relieve 
the plain solidity of the walls. 
singularly well adapted to its site in a very beautiful manner. 
An irregular piece of ground that is chiefly sloping offers 
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The reception-room is designed in the Pompeian style 
The house, moreover, is 
hasty glance, seemed possible. 
The garden is a beautiful grassed space enclosed by vine-covered rocks and walls 
tends to the outer or boundary wall. 
charming spot, much more ample in area than, at a first 
In the center is a circular 
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little inducement for 
architectural embel- 
lishment. Mr. Ran- 
toul has been for- 
tunate enough to 
produce a highly in- 
dividual house, per- 
fectly adapted to a 
very difficult site, so 
perfectly indeed, 
that the house seems 
as well suited to its 
situation as its situ- 
ation seems destined 
for it. 
The achievement 
in gardening is no 
lessextraordinary. A 
terrace, supported 
by a stone wall, im- 
mediately adjoins 
the outer side of the 
house. One end— 
the farthest — is 
roofed and fur- 
nished as an out- 
door living-room. 
At the near end are 
steps to a lower ter- 
race, where the base 
of the first wall is 
densely planted with 
shrubbery. Here is 
a path, and then a 
lower wall, over- 
grown with vines, 
which rises from 
the garden that is 
spread below its 
base and which ex- 
It is a thoroughly 
