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“White 
Lodge 
The Country Seat of A. Lithgow Devens, Esq., Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
By Francis Durando Nichols 
% N dismounting from the train at the little 
r station at Manchester, one is met at one 
side by the sea with its broad expanse of 
glittering water, while at the other side is 
the highway. Entering a motor car, one 
is taken through a delightful road, with 
its many finely kept estates all linking 
hands one with the other in such a harmonious fashion as to 
resemble a single great park. A sudden stop and one en- 
ters the woods at “White Lodge.” The primeval forest 
seems almost impenetrable on account of its denseness; 
beautiful woods, such as are frequently found in northern 
New England; woods that seem soft and quiet, with not a 
house or living thing to indicate the presence of man, save 
the roadway which has been made through them. The road 
ascends to the hill top where a sudden sweep brings the 
visitor to the forecourt built at the front of the house. 
One is not disappointed, for here rests a delightful house; 
a house with absolute simplicity and directness. Standing 
on the crest of the hill as it does, wreathed in all the beauty 
and glory of its wooded land, it is a place where one may 
live for the beauty and sequestration, for it holds all that 
The entrance front to the house 
