April, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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balustrades with 

 which they are in- 

 close d. The five 

 dormers of the en- 

 trance front are 

 alike in design and 

 completely in keep- 

 ing with the whole 

 exterior. The roof 

 is shingled, and the 

 blinds throughout 

 are painted Italian 

 green. As a matter 

 of structural infor- 

 mation it may be 

 added that the 

 chimneys, save for 

 their interior open- 

 ings, are built of 

 solid concrete to the 

 top. 



A word or two is 

 needed on the door- 

 way. The simplicity 

 of its design is 

 heightened by the 

 fact that it is the 

 single piece of orna- 

 ment applied to the exterior. It is a triple feature, the door- 

 way in the center being flanked with narrow windows inclosed 

 within pilasters, designed with channels and Ionic capitals. 

 Ionic columns of the Roman type stand on each side of the 

 doorway, the lower portion of the entablature being re- 

 cessed between them, with the uppermost moldings con- 

 tinued straight across and supporting a wrought iron railing 

 that transforms the space above into a shallow balcony. 

 The doorway itself does not rise to the entablature, space for 

 a panel dated with the year of the building being arranged 



above it. Interest- 

 ing as this frontis- 

 piece is one will not 

 linger unduly before 

 it, for it naturally 

 suggests an inter- 

 esting interior. The 

 rectangular hall is 

 of comparatively 

 modest dimensions, 

 and is intended to 

 serve only as an en- 

 tranceway and as a 

 means of communi- 

 cation to the other 

 rooms. The walls 

 are paneled in white 

 throughout. At each 

 end are pilasters, 

 forming a recess on 

 the right, while on 

 the left the space is 

 occupied by a boxed 

 staircase and by a 

 passage that con- 

 ducts to the service 

 rooms. The floor 

 is laid with red Mo- 

 ravian tiles, with wide white mortar joints. The furniture 

 is Italian. The plan of the house is so obvious that its chief 

 features may be discerned from this point of vantage. Im- 

 mediately in face is the drawing-room, which occupies the 

 whole of the inner center of the house. To the right, beyond 

 the alcove and beneath the pilasters, is the library, with the 

 den on the entrance front. To the left is the dining-room, 

 with the butler's pantry and kitchen on the entrance front, 

 and the servants' hall and laundry in a wing beyond the 

 main house lines. The drawing-room, library and dining- 



Japanese Screens and Paintings Constitute the Wall Decorations of the Drawing-room 



French Furniture of the Various Louis Periods Is Used in the Drawing-room 



