November, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
429 
House of J. H. Hammond, Esq., at Wynnewood, Pennsylvania 
By Marshall S. Wheeler 
S) HE charming house of J. H. Hammond, 
i Esq., at Wynnewood, Pa., is delightfully 
situated on a shady site in that prosperous 
and progressive Philadelphia suburb. ‘The 
country thereabouts, as all must know who 
have seen it, if no closer than from a rail- 
way-car window, is one of the most de- 
lightful that surrounds any great American city. I dare not 
venture so far as to assert that Mr. Hammond was fortunate 
enough to obtain the most delightful site of all, but surely 
it was attractive enough to call forth sympathetic treatment 
from his architect, Mr. Carroll Thayer, of Swarthmore, 
one of Wynnewood’s neighboring towns. A delightful site, 
it seems to me, should always inspire the creation of a 
delightful dwelling. The two go together as naturally as 
can be, and I offer the accompanying photographs as excel- 
lent evidence, and the best, of the admiration I feel for this 
quiet little house that seems so exquisitely fitted to the trees 
and woods amid which it is built. 
It is a stone house, as are many of the better houses in 
this vicinity, with a great sloping shingled roof, whose lofty 
gables on either end are shingled to the apex. On the front, 
the roof is broken by a dormer, that rises to a height of two 
stories and which gives so much interest and so much char- 
acter to the exterior. Its propecting eave is pierced, on one 
side, by the great stone chimney that rises up from the wall 
below, cutting through the main roof and rising to a suf- 
ficient height above the gable of the dormer. 
The silhouette elements of the design are thus very varied 
and highly decorative, but there are a number of other 
features that help to make this a thoroughly interesting bit 
of architecture. There is an entrance porch on one corner 
of the front, a porch occasioned by a recessing of the outer 
walls, with a fragment, as it were, left on the outermost 
angle to support the great roof above. Here, beneath the 
porch, is the main doorway, on the side wall, and not facing 
the street, a delightful arrangement for privacy that one 
seldom sees, yet which, now that we see how it is done— 
and why—is very clear and simple. In the main wall are 
two pairs of twin windows, with leaded glass in diamond 
pattern, and between them is the base of the chimney, to 
which I have already referred. And this is all, unless one 
includes, as indeed one must, the great stone bay on the side, 
which we presently discover to constitute a considerable por- 
tion of the dining-room. 
Being but a simple little house—and I must insist on this 
A charming house of stone with its two-story roof 
