AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1908 



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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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ors. The ingtenook 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-r 

 a passage, is t 

 manner, and ha 

 place and ma 

 of the house 

 vided with 

 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 



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Rusticity Is Well Expressed in thi 



frames and the entire building was 

 painted a pure white. 



The interior shows a large liv- 

 ing-room with a great open fire- 

 place and a Dutch oven. The white 

 painted trim and the walls, covered 

 with linen and painted a cream- 

 white, carry out the old Colonial 

 effect. The staircase rises out of 

 this living-room, and has white 

 painted risers and balusters and a 

 mahogany rail. The small alcove 

 contains a bookcase and scat. The 

 dining-room walls, which are cov- 

 ered with linen, are tinted a pea- 

 green. The kitchen and small hall 

 is fitted up complete. 



The second story was renovated, 

 and the four bedrooms had dormer 

 windows built in the roof for extra 

 ventilation and light. The bath- 

 room is fully equipped and the 

 whole house placed In a first class 

 sanitary condition. 



"Wayside," Mr. Gerrit Smith's 

 house, is another of the renovated 

 farm houses. It was built in 1749, 

 and its transformation under Mr. 

 Paddock's direction to its present 

 condition has not been excessive. A 

 piazza and a bay window were 

 added to the side of the house and 

 a bay window to the front; both 

 the bay windows give additional 

 space in the rooms to which they 

 are attached. 



The first floor contains a great 

 living-room, with a large open fire- 

 place and old Dutch oven, its old 

 stone hearth and facings and its 

 simple mantelshelf. The walls are 

 covered with narrow green and 

 white striped paper, and the trim- 

 mings are painted white. The 

 windows are hung with chintz air- 

 tains with red roses on a white 

 ground. 



The drawing-room is finished in 

 lavender and white. The walls are 

 covered with a barred paper in 

 lavender and white, and the win- 

 dows are hung with chintz curtains 

 in lavender and white. 



The dining-room is finished in 

 yellow and white. The walls are 

 covered with yellow and white 

 paper and the furniture is painted 



yellow to m; 

 white chintz c 



the windows, 

 built in the 

 equipped with 



itch. Yellow and 

 urtains are hung at 

 A bathroom was 

 second story and 

 all the best modern 



conveniences. 



"Naganonk' 

 another of thi 

 built in 1764, 

 by Mr. Paddoc 



The cxterioi 



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; old farm houses, 



and also remodeled 



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■ of this house was 



maintai 

 terior 



:ned in its entirety. The in- 

 ivas changed, however, and 



