September, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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and white enamel furniture. 

 The nursery is finished with 

 pea-green striped paper and 

 a green and yellow rug. 



The extension over the 

 kitchen contains two bed- 

 rooms and bathroom for 

 the servants. The main 

 bathrooms are provided 

 with tiled floor and wain- 

 scoting, and porcelain fix- 

 tures and exposed nickel- 

 plated plumbing. 



The exterior and interior 

 of the house is fitted with 

 all the modern conveniences 

 represented in the luxurious 

 tendencies of the times, and 

 the house as a whole is a 

 type of modern comfort 

 and beauty framed upon a 

 background of Italian class- 

 icisms. The garden at the 

 side of the house helps to 

 carry out these character- 

 istics. It is formal in its 

 shape, with a sun-dial in the 

 center, from which walks 

 leading in either direction 

 terminate at the altar of 

 Venus. 



There are many obvious advantages as well as much at- 

 tractiveness in this house. Its merits are general, and are as 

 well marked in the conveniences of the plan as in the beauty 

 and novelty of the elevations. The plan shows an admirable 

 distribution of the internal area as well as an excellent 

 adaptation to the site. This, as has been pointed out, is a 

 corner one. The whole of the front of the main street has, 

 therefore, been given up to the two principal rooms. Two 

 only were needed in a house of this style, and adapted, as 

 this one is, to summer use. These are the dining-room and 

 the living-room. Practically the entire main front is divided 

 equally between these two rooms, a separating corridor being 

 deemed unnecessary, and the space that would have been re- 



The Dining-room Is Treated with White Enamel with Painted Scenes Above the Wainscot 



quired for it being thus available for equal distribution be- 

 tween the two great rooms. 



The front of the house being thus given up to the orna- 

 mental apartments, the back or rear quite as naturally became 

 available for the service and secondary apartments. Here, in 

 the center, is the hall, with the stairway to the second floor. 

 Here also, to one side, is the den, and here, likewise, is the 

 inevitable pantry that serves as the connection between the 

 dining-room and the service apartments. The latter are 

 contained in an extension on one side, an arrangement that 

 gives the house its outward appearance of a solid square, 

 while it only gives a free space within, behind the hall and 

 den, which has been transformed into a garden. The plan 



The Screen Between the Living-room and the Dining-room 



The Staircase Hall 



