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HERE are few homes that have a more de- 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
“Briar-Birch’’—A Colonial house of the lean-to-roof type 
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roof, which extends down and forms the cover for the 
\Sor lightful plan, show a more charming touch piazza. Two brick chimneys, constructed at either end of 
was the lean-to-roof 
type of the old Co- 
lonial Pennsylvania 
homestead. In its 
construction there 
were none other 
than the best select- 
ed materials accept- 
ed, making a re- 
markably _ substan- 
tiilaulestaucbhurey. ais 
well as one of pe- 
culiar artistic merit. 
A brick - paved pi- 
azza court, fourteen 
feet in width and 
fifty-three feet in 
length, extending 
the full width of the 
house, is built at the 
front. Colonial 
columns, resting 
upon this brick- 
paved court, sup- 
port the lean-to 
of originality and true comfort, or have 
had pleasanter things said about them than 
“Briar Birch,’ the home of Mr. Theodore 
S. Holbrook, at Upper Montclair, N. J. 
The style selected for the exterior treatment 
The staircase ascends from the living-room 
the building, give it its architectural feature. The exterior 
is covered with wide clapboards painted white throughout, 
while the roof is covered with shingles and is stained a soft- 
green tone, harmonizing well with the black-headed brick 
and the white - painted woodwork of the exterior. 
At each side of 
the entrance to the 
house is built a 
wooden settle. The 
entrance is direct 
into the vestibule, 
from which access 
is obtained to the 
living - room, occu- 
pying one-half of 
the floor space of 
the first story. The 
vestibule, living- 
room and dining- 
room are trimmed 
in fumed chestnut. 
The floors are laid 
of selected oak, and 
are highly polished. 
The living-room has 
a beamed ceiling 
and an open fire- 
place, with facing 
of Roman brick laid 
in white mortar. A 
