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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1908 



The Front Overlooking the Lawn 



above, is on the south front. This porch, however, is wholly 

 reserved for house uses, there being no carriage road, nor 

 even a path here, the entrance front being on the opposite 

 side, where there is a porte cochere before a very simple 

 doorway. The porches, which run along two sides of the 

 house, are broad and spacious; one end on the main front is 

 inclosed with glass as a sun room; the double porch on the 

 south front — double in the sense of double floor space, and 

 not in height — is ample enough for an outdoor sitting-room, 

 and is a place of wondrous comfort and view-gazing over 



The Porcr 



the surrounding hilltops and valleys. A Japanese bronze 

 fountain stands in the center of the semi-circle, or deck 

 porch, and many Japanese bronzes and vases decorate the 

 porch margins everywhere. 



The house is of wood, shingled throughout, and painted 

 a dull pearl-gray drab. The trim, including the porch col- 

 umns and piers, the cornices, the friezes, window and door 

 frames and shutters are white, a white of a pure and intense 

 quality that forms an admirable foil to the more somber 

 color of the house walls. 



The Agra Rug of the Dining-room Is a Rare Specimen Seldom Seen in American Homes 



Antique Fun 



