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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1908 



The Hall Is White, with Green and White Panels ; the Curtains and Furniture Are Claret Damask 



still further out, and has 

 steps on either side to the 

 lawn below. This is a vast 

 grassed terrace, with lat- 

 ticed fences on each end 

 and open in the front. 

 From every point here, 

 both from the porches and 

 from the lawn, wonderful 

 views can be had over the 

 adjacent countryside. Wen- 

 ham Lake is far down be- 

 low, embedded in a circlet 

 of trees, and as far as the 

 eye can reach are wooded 

 hills and open valleys, with 

 here and there a barely dis- 

 cernible house in the far 

 distance. 



A third porch is applied 

 to the side wall of the 

 drawing-room, that is to 

 say, on the end of the house 

 nearest one as it is ap- 

 proached. It is semicircular 

 in form, with semicircular 

 steps, on the topmost of 

 which are Doric columns, 

 similar in design to those 

 used elsewhere. The eaves 

 project broadly, as on the 



The Drawing-room Has a White Wainscot and Laticed-rose Paper 



