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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1908 



front, for a m o r e 

 festal treatment. 

 The structural de- 

 sign is the same, 

 save in the window 

 treatment of the first 

 floor and the fact 

 that the roof con- 

 tains but three dor- 

 mers, while on the 

 other front it has 

 five. The most ob- 

 vious individuality, 

 however, is in the 

 end porticoes, both 

 of which are here 

 exposed and consti- 

 tute essential fea- 

 tures in the design. 

 The windows of the 

 first floor all reach 

 to the terrace level 

 and have casement 

 openings. The end 

 windows — those of 

 the library and din- 

 ing- rooms — are 

 triple openings, the 

 central window 

 being flanked with 

 narrow single lights. 

 The entire wall, as 

 on the entrance 

 front, has its trellis, 

 but here it is em- 



The Hall Is Paneled Throughout and Paved with Moravian Tiles 



phasized above the windows of the first floor by a series of 

 small brackets that support projecting strips of wood, which, 

 when the vines have covered it, will have the effect of a 

 green cornice against the white background. 



The great porticoes at each end of the house are two 

 stories in height, with a second balcony at the second 

 floor. The columns on the ends are of the Roman Doric 

 type. The intervening space, in the first story, is partly filled 

 with square trellises, between which are spacious openings. 



Within are Japanese 

 screens. The ceil- 

 ing is of paneled 

 plaster and the floor 

 of brick. In the 

 second story the 

 openings are closed 

 below within orna- 

 mental balustrades 

 in oblong panels: 

 Solid green blinds 

 complete the fixtures 

 here. The portico 

 to the right of the 

 entrance front is 

 open clear through 

 to the garden front; 

 but the other por- 

 tico, while treated in 

 exactly the same ex- 

 terior fashion, is 

 closed on the en- 

 trance front, and, 

 on the other is 

 but a comparatively 

 shallow recess. 



The immediate 

 foreground to this 

 delightful front is a 

 terrace, floored with 

 hand-made Ameri- 

 can tile of rough 

 texture laid in her- 

 ring-bone pattern. It 

 is raised but three 

 steps above the 

 ground, and is decorated with stone seats and with splen- 

 did vases at each end of the wide steps. Then comes a 

 broad stretch of lawn, bordered on each side by a thickly 

 planted growth of shrubbery and flowers, with bay trees in 

 great square boxes. Further on a slightly lower level is 

 reached, with a single step, and again great stone vases. Be- 

 yond, in the center of the lawn, is a pool, formal in shape, 

 and with a cemented border; then more lawn, more planted 

 shrubbery, and a great outlook over the country beyond. 



