November, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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The Porch and Pergola of the Dining-room 



the dining-room at the extreme end. The kitchen and 

 service-rooms are in the basement, and have their own en- 

 trance and sunken yard. 



The vestibule has a door frame of oak and a floor of 

 glazed brick. There is a wrought-iron electrolier on each 

 side of the inner door. The latter has, within, curtains of 

 red velvet lined with silk. The corridor walls are faced with 

 Caen stone blocks and the floor is of Hauteville marble, 

 covered with a fine rug. The walls are hung with tapestry 

 and the door curtains are of red velvet with gold embroidery. 

 A passage on the right has a toilet-room on one side and a 

 door to the service-rooms on the other; at the end is Mr. 

 Converse's study. 



It is a square room, wainscoted in quartered American 

 oak, above which the walls are hung with Spanish hand- 

 tooled leather in tones of brown and gold. There is a richly 

 detailed plaster cornice, and a plaster ceiling in low relief 

 tracery. On the floor is a hand-tufted rug, red, with col- 

 ored center and border. The furniture is quartered oak, 

 covered with red Morocco leather, very beautiful in color 

 and quality. The window curtains are arranged with 

 valances and are of olive green flax velour with gold braid. 

 The light fixtures are bronze. The fireplace facing is richly 

 veined in green and red; the lining is of red brick, and the 

 andirons are of iron dipped in boiled oil. The room is dis- 

 tinctly Spanish in effect and the paintings on the walls are 



The Carriage Stable Under the Trees 



