224 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
of special construction, is square in form with its lines fre- 
quently broken by ornamental windows and doorways, which 
relieve the monotony and the severity of the exterior walls. 
A low sloping roof, covered with shingles, is stained a deep 
red tone in harmony with the yellow gray stucco and the 
ivory white trimmings. 
The plan shows a large living-room and _ living-porch 
built at the front of the house. The entrance to the living- 
room is direct from the entrance porch, opposite which is 
built an open fireplace. To the right of the fireplace an 
ornamental staircase ascends to the second story. A bay 
window is built at the right side of the room, while opposite 
it is a French window opening onto the living-porch, which 
is at the side of the house. The dining-room is separated 
by an archway and connected with the kitchen through the 
butler’s pantry. The kitchen, its dependencies and lobby 
are trimmed with cypress, finished naturally, and are fur- 
Dresser 
Porch 
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Fig. 19—First floor plan 
nished with all the best modern improvements. There are 
four bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor. 
The house built for Walter Minton, Esq., and illustrated 
in Figs. 9, 10, I1, 12 and 13, was designed by Messrs. 
Slee and Bryson, architects, of Brooklyn, ‘The exterior 
walls of the house are constructed of cement stucco, and are 
relieved by the two porches, built at either end of the house, 
and the latticed casement windows with which the house is 
provided. The roof is covered with shingles stained a soft 
green tone, which harmonizes well with the gray stucco and 
the white trimmings. 
The living-room is entered direct from the entrance 
porch. Both this and the dining-room are treated with 
white enamel paint. The living-room has a window-seat 
and an open fireplace built of brick furnished with a Colonial 
mantel. An ornamental staircase, with white risers and 
treads and a mahogany rail and balusters, ascends to the sec- 
ond floor. The dining-room has a paneled wainscoting to the 
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height of seven feet, at which point a plate-rack is placed. 
Broad French windows open onto the living-porch built at 
the side of the house. The kitchen and dependencies are 
fitted up complete and a private staircase leads to the maids’ 
rooms on the second floor, over the kitchen. This floor also 
contains three bedrooms and two bathrooms. 
The house illustrated in Figs. 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 
was built for Henry W. Ackerson, Esq. This is an inter- 
esting house of good design, with a cement terrace at the 
front, having a floor covered with red quarry tile and en- 
closed with a balustrade, from which the entrance to the 
house is reached. The first story is constructed of cement 
stucco, while the second story is covered with brown-stained 
shingles. The shingled roof is also stained a soft brown 
tone and the trimmings throughout are painted ivory white. 
The living- and the dining-rooms are trimmed with 
cypress, painted ivory white. The living-room contains a 
Fig. 21—Second floor plan 
staircase with white-painted treads, risers and balustrades, 
and a mahogany newel post and rail. There is a window 
seat and an open fireplace built with brick facings and a 
Colonial mantel of Georgian style. Doors on either side 
of the fireplace open into the billiard-room, which 1s 
trimmed with oak. ‘This room is a particularly handsome 
one for the reason that it has a dome ceiling, which gives 
it a greater height. It has a paneled wainscoting and an 
open fireplace built with quarry tile facings from the floor 
to the ceiling. The house illustrated in Figs. 19, 20 and 
21 represents a dwelling of the leanto-roof kind, the 
feature of which was copied from the Colonial house so fre- 
quently seen in New England. All of the houses illu- 
strated in this paper have servant’s quarters placed in 
the third story, with bath, and ample storage space, 
while the cellar of each of the houses has a heating 
apparatus, fuel-rooms and every necessary fixture which 
goes to make a house livable. 
