AMERICAN 
The house of Mr. Carrington, at Greenwich, Connecticut, viewed in the light of an interesting transformation 
creating it. It would be impossible to give in this article all 
the names of even the most successful architects who have 
solved the problem of designing the home-like house and 
remodeling the old houses of our great-grandfathers in the 
most delightful way. However, it is a satisfaction to be 
able to point out such a house as that in Plainfield, N. J., 
designed a few years ago by Messrs. Tracy & Swartwout, 
architects. This house, I think, has much of the old-time 
feeling of charm, as has the delightful old house built at 
New Canaan, Conn., in revolutionary times by Col. St. 
John Palmer, which in its remodeled form is now the prop- 
erty of Mr. Neilson Olcott. 
“Judah Rock,” at Sauga- 
tuck, Conn., the country 
house of Mr. William P. 
Eno, the entrance front of 
which is shown in the 
frontispiece of the present 
number of AMERICAN 
Homes AND GARDENS, is an 
example of the development 
of a fair-sized Colonial 
farmhouse into a mansion 
appropriate to the estate of 
a modern gentleman of 
leisure. Of the original en- 
trance front very little is 
now. visible, the entire 
facade of the main building 
having been built from my 
partner’s designs at the time 
that they added the wing to 
the left. The details of the 
wing to the right show the 
work of other architects at 
the time of some earlier, but 
still modern, alteration of 
the house. In the earlier 
alteration the details are 
“near Colonial,” rather than 
the real thing, and strike a 
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October, Ig11 
somewhat discordant note, 
and with the rather spotty 
planting of the approach de- 
tract from the general ef- 
fectiveness of the entrance 
facade. On the garden front 
the details of the change 
have been kept in perfect 
harmony with the old de- 
sign, and the result is cor- 
respondingly satisfactory. 
How delightful are these 
porches close to the level of 
the turf; and how seldom 
we see them nowadays. It 
is interesting to note that the 
floors of the porches—close 
to the ground as they are— 
are of wood, and not of 
brick or tile or cement, as is 
so much more usual in mod- 
ern work. The wood, of 
course, is less permanent 
and has to be painted from 
time to time and renewed, 
but it is more comfortable 
than the more permanent 
material, and for this type 
of house equally pleasing in 
effect. Two interiors are 
shown—one the old hall, and the other the new entrance 
hall or vestibule. The wall paper in the old hall is of an in- 
teresting pattern, and was made by a well-known wall-paper 
manufacturer in exact copy of an old paper of which Mr. 
Eno found a fragment in New Orleans. So taken were the 
manufacturers with the paper that they have had for them- 
selves new blocks prepared for a paper as nearly 
similar in effect as possible, without reproducing Mr. 
Eno’s design. There is an indefinable charm in this 
low-ceiling room, with its paneled stairway, and it is in its 
way, perhaps, of equal interest with the new and more 
Mr. Carrington’s house has, at its rear, a grounds area that is a garden-like improvement on the original 
