AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
Volume VIII 
August, 191 | 
Number 8 
“Villa Aurora’ 
The Home of George D. Barron, Esg., Rye, New York 
By Barr Ferree 
(FAO GVGA) HERE is a very real quality of livable- 
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is all the more marked because it is a 
large house superbly appointed and built 
in the midst of an estate of about fifty 
acres. he residence is entered from the 
porte cochere at the northern end, the 
longer and more monumental east front, which affords a 
view of Long Island Sound, being reserved for family use 
exclusively. Mr. George A. Freeman, of New York, was 
the architect. 
The outer doors are provided with a handsome wrought 
iron grill, lined with plate glass, opening to an oval vesti- 
bule, the walls of which have a high paneled dado, the walls 
and ceilings being of a rich but quiet, low-toned, old-gold 
finish. The inner door conducts to an entrance-hall, which 
leads directly into the main or reception hall, which is ar- 
ranged at right angles to it. ‘There is no intervening door- 
The portico front of the house 
