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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1908 



ors. The inglenook is the feature 

 of the living-room, with its broad 

 open fireplace built of rough stones, 

 and a floor laid with paving stones. 

 Broad seats are built on either 

 side of it. 



The dining-room, connected by 

 a passage, is treated in a similar 

 manner, and has an attractive fire- 

 place and mantel. The service end 

 of the house is perfect, and is pro- 

 vided with all the best modern 

 conveniences. 



The second floor is divided into 

 sleeping-rooms and bathrooms, the 

 latter fitted with porcelain fixtures 

 and exposed nickelplated plumbing. 

 The servants' quarters are placed 

 on the third floor, which has also 

 the trunk room. 



"Shorewood," the summer home 

 of E. H. Norton, Esq., is another 

 of the most attractive of the newer 

 houses. It is built of rock-faced 

 fieldstone with half-timber work, 

 carrying out English characteristics. 

 The timber work is stained a soft 

 brown color, and the white tinted 

 plaster panels and the brilliant red 

 shingled roof make a handsome 

 picture. The interior is admirably 

 planned, with great living-rooms 

 on the first floor and sleeping-rooms 

 and ample bathrooms on the sec- 

 ond floor. 



"Cedar Cliff" is a Dutch Co- 

 lonial house, designed by Mr. A. 

 N. Paddock, architect, of New 

 York, and is built of stone and 

 shingles, and has a very attractive 

 setting with a group of cedars, 

 from which it finds appropriateness 

 in its name. 



Mr. Walter Blabon's house, of 

 which Carpenter & Blair, of New 

 York, were the architects, is a new 

 addition to the Park. It is a stone 

 and half-timber house with bottle- 

 green trimmings and gray plas- 

 tered panels between the timber 

 work. 



Mr. Paddock's design for 

 "Heartsease," the summer home of 

 Joseph Sawyer, Jr., in a grove of 

 tall chestnuts and close to the 

 water's edge, is another one of his 

 attractive houses in stone and half- 

 timber work. 



"Shing-wak" (lone pine), the 

 residence of Mr. Thomas Alsop, is 

 one of the old farm houses, which 

 was built in 1771 and remodeled by 

 Mr. Paddock in 1906. The 

 changes have been slight on the ex- 

 terior, as shown in the photographs 

 of the house before and after the 

 alteration; the only addition being 

 the piazza and dormer windows 

 built in the roof. Small lighted 

 windows were installed in the old 



An Arm of Long Island Sound 1 



Rusticity Is Well Expressed in this Picture 



The Casino and B 



The Tennis Courts in the Park 



