AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1908 



The Inner Porch Overlooks a Terrace Supported by Walls of Stone 



actually a triple window, but a doorway to the balcony with 

 a narrow window on each side. The balcony is of wrought 

 iron, very simple in design, and identical with the other 

 balconies in the end pavilions. The door has a gently curved 

 top, its uppermost molding being continued as the crowning 



molding on either side. 

 Then comes the little semi- 

 circular window above, and 

 finally the curved gable. 



Everything else is plain, 

 simple and severe. Every 

 thing else is solid walls, 

 straight lines, plain rect- 

 angular windows. The lines 

 are wholly structural, and 

 are formed by the changes in 

 the surface of the walls; by 

 projecting the central bay 

 somewhat forward, and 

 bringing the end portions 

 still further forward, swell- 

 ing out their inner walls at 

 the base, and building a seat 

 within the recess thus 

 formed. And over all is the 

 roof, sloping down from the 

 ridge over the center and end 

 wings in a continuous slope, 

 without other crown to the 

 walls than its eaves, which 

 are projected still further 

 forward over the uppermost 

 window toward each end. 



Structurally this is all. Of 

 horizontal lines there are 

 none at all; of breaks of any 

 sort, of imaginary ornamental detail, of unnecessary fea- 

 tures, of the thousand and one details with which architecture 

 is so often supposed to be concerned — of these, none. It is 

 all so simple and quiet that the very leaders act as decorative 

 features, as it is quite right they should. 



The Side Portal Stands a-top a Semicircular Pyramid of 

 Steps Leading to the Garden 



The Entrance Doorway, with Its Glazed and Curved Tympanum, Is 

 the Most Striking Feature of the Exterior 



