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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1908 



The Entrance Passage and Stairs to the Second Floor 



mental device that adds both to the variety 

 of the front and to the individuality of the 

 whole building. Exception should also be 

 made for the large round arched window 

 further on to the right, whose doubly re- 

 cessed head is supported by a couple of lion 

 heads, from which depend ropes of carved 

 foliage. 



At the beginning of this review special 

 mention was made of the very simple lines 

 on which this house was designed; an 

 analysis of a single front discloses how much 

 interest has been brought into it by a true 

 feeling for the value of ornamental detail, 

 and how, even when following the simplest 

 of structural lines, restraining as far as may 

 be the ornamental features, it may still be 

 possible to endow a building with a genuine 

 variety of interesting parts, and how, by 

 using ornamental features where they are 

 needed, and only in such places, a very great 

 deal of interest may be created. Certainly 

 there are no dull spots in this front, which 

 is an extraordinarily clever combination of 

 solids and voids, of simple construction, and 

 of fine bits of ornamental detail. 



So delightful is this exterior that one quite 

 naturally lingers long without the house be- 

 fore going within. In its structural lines and 

 form and number of its window openings 

 the entrance front discloses a delightful va- 

 riety and disregard of conventionality. Struc- 

 turally the rear, the garden or water front 

 — for here the house overlooks the Sound — 

 is much more formal in its general design, a 



The Living End of the Great Interior Room 



