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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1908 



room all overlook the garden front. The 

 spacious drawing-room is a noble apart- 

 ment, with three great French windows 

 opening into the terrace above the garden. 

 It is trimmed with butternut trained with 

 a special gum treatment that yields a soft 

 brown effect. The walls are based with a 

 low wainscot of this wood, which reap- 

 pears in the plain but stately cornice with 

 which the perfectly plain white ceiling is 

 supported. The wall design is that of 

 gigantic panels, inclosed within a simple 

 molding that abuts against the wainscot 

 and cornice, below and above and on the 

 ends, against the uprights at the chimney- 

 piece and the frames of the doors and win- 

 dows. These panels are so large as to 

 be continued around the corners of the 

 room, which are curved and without the 

 abrupt juncture of rightangled surfaces. 

 The whole of this panel-surface is covered 

 with Japanese grass cloth of golden brown 

 hue known as gold antique. The window 

 curtains are of damask, with a dull green 

 body on which is a large pattern of Italian 

 design in ecru. The wall decorations are, 



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for the most part, Japanese paintings and 

 screens. The fireplace has facings of red 

 sandstone encased within a mantelpiece of 

 simple design, which in its turn is applied 

 to a background of paneled wood that ex- 

 tends to the cornice. The furnishings are, 

 for the most part, French, and include 

 some Louis XIV black walnut chairs, with 

 others of the Louis XV period, and a Louis 

 XVI console table. The light fixtures are 

 of candle form applied to the walls. 



The library is finished in walnut of a 

 grayish tone. Save on the side of the 

 fireplace its walls are entirely encased with 

 bookshelves. These rise to the height of 

 the doorways, the space above them hav- 

 ing the wall brought out flush with the 

 shelves, which thus have a completely 

 built-in effect. The upper surface is cov- 

 ered with leather tinted grayish brown. 

 The handsome furniture is entirely ade- 

 quate and in keeping with the literary 

 quality of the room. The window curtains 

 are of soft crimson and gold mesh. The 

 spacious fireplace has sandstone facings 

 and wood trim, supporting a narrow shelf, 

 with a paneled overmantel. The den, 

 which adjoins this room, is treated with 

 white enamel. 



The dining-room, as has been pointed 

 out, is on the opposite end of the house. 

 It is wainscoted throughout to the ceiling 

 in paneled butternut, the triple division of 

 base, dado and frieze being maintained by 

 panels of different dimensions and form, 

 and the whole being surmounted by a 

 cornice that carries the plain ceiling. There 

 is no mantelpiece, but the fireplace facing 

 of sandstone is finished with a simple mold- 

 ing of wood. An ornamental panel in 

 color is let into the upper space. Channeled 

 pilasters on either side emphasize the im- 

 portance of this feature, which is further 



