February, 1911 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 45 
The gardener’s cottage 
space of the lower porch is enclosed and forms a part 
of the service rooms; but the upper porch is ‘here iden- 
tical with that on the west. The angles between these 
porches and the corners of the main front are occupied by 
terraces, floored with white marble, and enclosed with 
balustrades. 
The colonnade is not only the chief feature of the 
entrance front, but is the chief ornamental feature of the 
whole exterior. The doorway in the center has a narrow 
window on each side, and is enclosed with a magnificent 
wrought iron grille, glazed within; there are wrought iron 
lanterns here, held out on sturdy arms of the same material. 
The awnings are green and white, and above is a loggia- 
like treatment, of an elliptical arch supported on Roman 
Doric columns, a triple opening with small upper circles 
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The garage 
At the base of the great steps are two 
in the spandrels. 
On each side of the 
immense vases of white marble. 
door is a superb Retinospora Obtusa Nana, an ex- 
traordinary fine pair of specimen trees, said to be 
the most perfect in America. There are smaller plants 
in small marble jardiniéres here and similar decorations 
in the bases of the upper central windows. All the 
windows, it may be added, have outer Venetian blinds, 
painted green, and those of the second story have wrought 
iron base grilles. The roof is flat, with a balustrade all 
around. ta 
While structurally this facade encloses the front of the 
house, it is equally valuable as a screen to the sumptuous 
garden spread before it. In the nomenclature of ‘‘Filston”’ 
this is the south garden. It is rectangular in form, and wide 
The north garden 
