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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1908 



expanded here, and is carried forward at the center, where 

 it is stopped on each end of a curved projection beyond the 

 porch roof. The terrace throughout is paved with large 

 red brick. 



The main doorway is simply framed, and has a single 

 torch electrolier on each side in the adjoining wall. The 

 doors are of glass, protected by a wrought iron grille. There 

 is no vestibule, but the space just within the doorway, which 

 is arched beneath the central platform of the staircase, is 

 floored with a vast slab of green marble, laid in borders of 

 white marble. The visitor is thus ushered immediately into 

 the hall, a vast and spacious apartment that completely fills 

 the entire center of the house. The stairs rise on each side of 

 the entrance door, and constitute a monumental feature of 



The windows have white lace curtains with cloud shades 

 of thin white silk. The carpet is green. The furniture is, 

 for the most part, wicker, in white and green. There are 

 two Roman tables, with carved pedestals of white marble 

 and tops of polished green marble. Directly in the center is 

 a round Roman table of green bronze whose shallow top is 

 a small aquarium, filled with water and containing gold fish. 

 Great ornamental vases stand between the windows and on 

 the opposite side of the room, and are filled with a fine col- 

 lection of palms and other house plants. Two gilt electro- 

 liers depend from the ceiling. 



The hall is the largest room in the house, and is actually 

 an apartment of monumental size and character. The same 

 scale of spaciousness is carried out elsewhere on this floor, 



The Stairs in the Hall Are a Monumental Feature of Imposing Proportions 



imposing proportions. The newels are handsome blocks of 

 polished marble, each surmounted with a jardiniere. The 

 stair well has a curved outer wall, the double stairs rising to 

 a platform above the entrance door and completing the 

 ascent in a single flight. The walls here, and in the hall, are 

 finished in imitation Caen stone, cream white in color. 



The plan arrangement is such that while the stairs are a 

 notable ornament to the hall, they are actually not in it, since 

 the space they occupy is contained in what is in effect an 

 alcove, completely open to the central area, but not consum- 

 ing any part of its floor space. The hall is a superb apartment, 

 very long and wide, and of quite unusual height, so that its 

 immediate impression is one of great spaciousness. It is 

 treated, too, in a large and impressive way, with great panels 

 on the side wall, a single great panel in the ceiling, vast open- 

 ings into the adjoining apartments and windows of grand 

 size opening on to the sea porch, and overlooking the ocean. 



although the other rooms have less floor area. The great 

 opening on the right admits to the living-room. It is finished 

 in green and white. Directly in face as it is entered, and 

 hence an actual feature of the hall, since it is completely 

 visible from it, is a monumental fireplace. Two gaines 

 uphold a richly carved frieze, above which is the mantel- 

 shelf. The chimney-breast is elaborately paneled, with an 

 ornamental cartouche above. The windows have heavily 

 molded frames, the wall spaces being treated as great panels, 

 which rise immediately above a low baseboard, and which 

 are filled in with green. The fireplace is lined with tan- 

 colored brick, and the hearth is of white tile, on which stand 

 splendid andirons of wrought iron. The ceiling is white, 

 and is treated as one great panel, slightly indicated without 

 moldings, but with a small decorated wreath in each corner. 

 As in the hall, the window curtains are white lace, with 

 white cloud shades. The carpet is green and the furniture of 



