November, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



447 



The Summer Home of B. B. Crowninshield, Esq., 



Marblehead, Massachusetts 

 By Francis Durando Nichols 



(HE problem of providing in the summer a 

 home in the country for the city dweller is 

 met and solved in various ways among the 

 hills and by the sea. 



If there is anywhere in our land a class 

 of buildings which emanates from the people 

 it is the homes built by families of moder- 

 ate means in the country. Mr. Crowninshield has demon- 

 strated this charac- 

 teristic by the at- 

 tractive house which 

 he has built for his 

 summer home, over- 

 hanging the rugged 

 coast of Marble- 

 head. 



The house is 

 built to follow the 

 contour of the coast, 

 and is perched high 

 upon the rocks, from 

 which broad vistas 

 of the ocean are ob- 

 tained from every 

 room in the house. 

 The house is built 

 so that the under 

 side of the building 

 is occupied for the 

 cellar, and for bath- 

 boxes and boating 

 apparatus. 



The exterior 

 framework is cov- 

 ered with matched 

 sheathing and then 

 with white cedar 

 shingles. The roof 

 is also covered with 

 white cedar shingles. 



Gable End and Terrace 



The piazza is an attractive feature of the place, which is 



well furnished, and upholstered in turkey red. 



The entrance to the house is reached by the approach to 



it from the driveway, which sweeps up to the front door 



opening into the vestibule. 



The great living-room, which occupies the larger part of 



the first story, has paneled walls and trim of yellow pine. 



finished in a soft brown stain. The beamed and ribbed 



ceiling and all the 

 trim of the room is 

 treated in a similar 

 manner. A feature 

 of the living-room is 

 the i n g 1 e n o o k. 

 which is provided 

 with a fireplace built 

 of rock-faced stone. 

 The floor of the 

 inglenook is laid 

 with brick, and on 

 either side of it there 

 are seats and book- 

 cases built in. The 

 staircase, of orna- 

 mental character, 

 rises up around the 

 chimnev to the sec- 

 ond story. The 

 cushions and the up- 

 holstery in the ingle- 

 nook are covered 

 w i t h turkey red. 

 Soft white muslin 

 curtains are hung at 

 the windows. 



The dining-room 

 has similar paneled 

 walls in North Car- 

 olina pine, stained 

 and finished in a 



