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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1908 



Bedroom in the Louis XVI Style 



is thus a very admirable one, giving fine space for the prin- 

 cipal rooms and presenting two free facades for architectural 

 treatment. 



And the plan is quite as successful in the second story as in 

 the first. Above is a series of bedrooms, arranged in regular 

 order on the main front, with an additional room at each 

 end on the side, and two 

 more in the extension over 

 the kitchen. There are two 

 bathrooms, one at each end 

 of the hall, and conveniently 

 located for use from all the 

 main bedrooms. 



The regularity and order 

 of this plan is given fine ex- 

 pression in the architectural 

 design. A stately row of 

 arches forms a loggia that 

 extends completely around 

 three sides of the house. 

 They are, in fact, within the 

 main building line, for the 

 upper walls rise immedi- 

 ately above them, and are 

 continuous with their outer 

 surfaces. The arches, how- 

 ever, do not exhaust the 

 porch space of the house, 

 for the terrace without 

 them constitutes an integral 

 portion of the house. 



There is a stateliness and 

 charm in the quiet architec- 

 ture of this house that af- 

 fords a fine foil to the 

 statuary with which it is 

 decorated and to the orna- 

 mental treatment of the 



outer grounds. Here is 

 distinct novelty of great 

 interest and of intense indi- 

 viduality. Fine sculpture 

 of the classic period is much 

 too unfamiliar for any ex- 

 amples to be spared in this 

 present day and generation, 

 and the exceedingly novel 

 idea of utilizing SOme Or 

 the most important works 

 of the classk masters as 

 decorative elements for a 

 modern American home has 

 here been carried out with 

 great force and originality. 

 Obviously this is a dwell- 

 ing that commands and de- 

 mands the consideration of 

 the passer-by, as well as one 

 that meets the taste and 

 needs of its owner. Almost 

 every house may be sup- 

 posed to do that, but it is 

 not every one that so de- 

 liberately excites interest as 

 this one does. And it ac- 

 complishes this end in a 

 very direct and deliberate 

 manner, not by a rich archi- 

 tectural display, not by 

 overloading with ornament, but by the calm utilization of 

 some of the world's masterpieces in sculpture. There is a 

 noble lesson of beauty taught here, a lesson inforced by com- 

 petent reproductions of great masterpieces of sculpture, 

 works of inspiration and of beauty, the mere contemplation 

 of which is both helpful and elevating. 



The Boudoir Js Finished in Coral-pink and Gray 



