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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1908 



whole of the lower story in the central wall. It is a great 

 open porch, completely within the limits of the house lines, 

 with a central opening emphasized with external columns and 

 a broken curved pediment, strengthened within by a group of 

 pilasters. A single column in the center of each adjoining 

 space supports the extension of the entablature and the whole 

 is closed with pilasters at each end. The inner space is walled 

 throughout with limestone, and is fitted up and furnished as 

 an outdoor sitting-room. 



Just without it is the terrace, a long and spacious platform, 

 extending wholly across the entire front, and reaching beyond 



with flat arches of brick with keystones of limestone. The 

 lower angles of the end pavilions are also built up in stone, 

 but above the first story they are without emphasis. The 

 thickening of the center of the wall has already been men- 

 tioned, and it only remains to add that the window here is 

 incased within a large and ornamental frame of stone. A 

 string course of brick separates the two stories in the end 

 pavilions, and except for the loggia the walls are without 

 other horizontal projections until the fine cornice is reached 

 at the summit. Above is the roof, with segmentally arched 

 dormers of a design similar to those of the entrance front. 



The Terrace Is Floored with Brick, Marble and Cement 



The Library Is 



the porches with which the house is completed. It is inclosed 

 within a stone balustrade, and is supported by a stone wall, 

 with a superb flight of steps in the center that rise directly 

 from the surface of the surrounding lawn. The flooring con- 

 sists of Harvard brick laid on their sides; in the center are 

 great panels of concrete laid in marble borders, the effect 

 being that of mosaic on a large scale. The hillside drops 

 quickly a short distance below the terrace, giving the front a 

 singularly free and detached appearance, to which its whole 

 design is admirably in keeping. 



The remaining features may be briefly noted. They con- 

 sist chiefly of a fine feeling for wall space and a skilful disposi- 

 tion of the windows. These are throughout of identical 

 design, and consist of large rectangular openings, surmounted 



Each end of the house is occupied by a porch. That to the 

 left, as the mansion is entered, is inclosed with glass and is 

 used as an outdoor dining-room when the season permits. 

 That on the right is a great open structure immediately over- 

 looking the garden, to which it not only serves as an intro- 

 duction, but of which it is an integral portion. It is built 

 completely of limestone, the same material being employed 

 also for the house wall immediately beneath it. It is nearly 

 square, being three bays long on the sides, and three bays 

 across the front. It is supported by columns with pilasters on 

 the ends. The ceiling is of plaster, elaborately paneled and 

 decorated, and the floor is paved with brick. 



The garden, to which this porch so completely belongs, is 

 an immense space inclosed with a brick wall of the same gen- 



