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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1908 



The Garage Includes Storage Room and a Complete Repair Shop 



development of the estate. Like the other buildings it was 

 designed by Mr. Donn Barber, architect, of New York. 

 Like them, also, it is of stone, but the roof is of green 

 Spanish tile, and is very amply and most impressively devel- 

 oped. It is the roof which gives this great house its chief 

 distinction, rising to a grand height, broken by stone dormers, 

 supported on projecting eaves, and fine in color. The plan 

 of the house is H-shaped, with projecting wings front and 

 back. The carriage porch abuts against a similar wing on 

 one side, and on the opposite end a large rectangular exten- 

 sion, one story in height, contains the dining-room. On the 

 terrace front this is faced with a porch, which is extended 

 pergola-like beyond the house; it is covered with a closed 



roof with open rafters beyond the stone piers. The house 

 is built of gray stone, with outside blinds painted dark green 

 and sash and window frames white. The wood balcony of 

 the terrace front, the parapets and the eaves are stained 

 brown. These quiet tones admirably harmonize with the 

 green tile of the roof, which is beautifully uneven in color. 

 The plan is devoid of complications and is simple and 

 direct. A corridor runs from the entrance doorway straight 

 through the house; in the center it is merged in the great 

 hall, but is renewed beyond and ends at the dining-room. On 

 the left, beginning at the entrance, is the drawing-room; on 

 the right is Mr. Converse's study. The billiard-room is 

 behind the great hall; the library beyond it on the left, and 



The Farm Barn Is Built of Stone with an Immense Shingled Roof 



