A Quaint New-Old House Above a Stream 



"Kinnekort' 



The Residence of Edward K. Cone, Esq., at Colonia, New Jersey 



By Paul Thurston 



HE house "Kinnekort" is designed to real- 

 ize the owner's love for the simple charm 

 of the old Dutch farm houses. 



The outside walls of the house are cov- 

 ered with hand-riven cypress shingles 

 twenty-four inches long laid eleven and 

 a half inches to the weather and painted 

 white. The roofs are covered with split cedar shingles, 

 stained and bleached a weathered gray. The exposed foun- 

 dations and chim- 

 neys are of com- 

 mon red Jersey brick 

 laid Flemish bond in 

 white mortar with 

 five-eighth inch 

 joints. The porches 

 and terrace are 

 paved with large red 

 brick laid herring- 

 bone in wide white 

 mortar joints. Al- 

 though the silhou- 

 ette of the house is 

 lively and varied 

 from all viewpoints, 

 it is interesting to 

 note that from every 

 aspect it fills a semi- 

 circle, returning al- 

 ways to the ground 

 and retaining repose 

 and intimate connec- 

 tion with the site. 

 The porches are 

 large and occur 



A Pergola Is Built at the Entrance to the Garden 



where needed, but are so tied into the house that its old- 

 fashioned character is kept unhurt by the excrescence of a 

 porch of the usual modern type. 



The principal rooms have white painted woodwork, gray 

 ceilings and birch floors stained dark mahogany red. The 

 hall is paneled to the ceiling in the first story, and hung in 

 the second with a landscape paper in dull grays, greens 

 and blues upon a buff canvas-like ground, which is continued 

 in the passage as a plain wall hanging. Entrance to the hall is 



on the lower land- 

 ing of the stairs, and 

 a pleasing sense of 

 gradual entrance 

 into the house is 

 given by descending 

 one step to the hall 

 and another to the 

 living - room. This 

 room is hung in old- 

 fashioned chintz, 

 and its broad win- 

 dows open to the 

 east porch and ter- 

 race. It is furnished, 

 as are all the rooms, 

 with charming old 

 mahogany and ex- 

 cellent reproductions 

 of the old work. 

 The brick-lined 

 fireplace has facings 

 and hearth of spe- 

 cially made Volkmar 

 tiles in dull green. 

 The den, open- 



