February, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



69 



The Suburban Home of 



G. W. Graham, Esq., 



Lawrence Park, Bronxville, New York 

 By Walter Williams 



R. GRAHAM'S suburban 

 home at Bronxville, 

 N. Y., is designed in 

 the English villa style, 

 and shows what can be 

 done in the building of a 

 small country house along 

 these lines, and at the same time permitting 

 it to have sufficient artistic value to give 

 it a charming character. 



The house is built on the side of a hill, 

 and with the building of retaining walls 

 which extend in either direction from the 

 front line of the house, a natural graded 

 lawn is obtained at the front and at the 

 level of the roadway, while at the rear a 



The Hall Is Finished with a Forest-Green Effect for the Trim and a Gray Tint for the Walls 



The Porch at the Entrance Is Quite Chapel-like in Its Effect 



greater depth gives an extra story to the 

 house, the entrance to which is reached 

 from the grade line. The site is well 

 studded with a forest of trees which form 

 a very excellent setting for the house and 

 adds dignity to the already delightful site. 

 While it is not a large plot, it has the ap- 

 pearance of a greater one for the reason 

 that it blends itself with the neighboring 

 grounds, presenting the appearance of one 

 estate. 



The building is treated in an artistic 

 manner with an excellent harmony of color. 

 The house is kept close to the grade at the 

 front, and from this point to the peak the 

 entire building is covered with stucco 

 placed on a wooden frame construction, 

 the finishing coat being put on in a rough 

 manner, brushed out and left with an ir- 

 regular surface. The trimmings and all 

 exterior woodwork are painted a rich 

 brown color, harmonizing well with the 

 gray of the stucco work and the soft green 

 stained shingled roof, the latter blending 

 itself and dying away into the soft green 

 of the trees which overhang it. 



An attractive feature of the house is the 

 entrance porch being separated from the 

 piazza, which is placed at the rear of the 

 house, forming a center where the family 

 life is spent during the warm season of the 

 year; this piazza is inclosed within glass 

 in winter and is used for a sun-room. 



The square hall, which is placed in the 

 center of the house, gives access to the 

 two principal rooms on the first floor. It 

 is finished with a forest green effect, with 

 gray tinted walls. It contains a paneled 

 seat and staircase of simple but artistic 



