October, 1911 — AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 367 
The dining-room, Adden house 
nate square and oblong panels, with little scenes repeated at intervals, 
after the manner of the eighteenth century. The walls of most of the 
other rooms are covered with a striped paper without a frieze, but 
with a narrow molding next the white ceiling, which has been allowed 
to remain slightly roughened and uneven. In many of the rooms are 
the heavy beams which cross the ceiling in unexpected places—these 
beams seem to have been considered necessary for the proper con- 
struction of the house. 
Much of the beauty and interest of the Adden house is added by the 
furnishings, which are in perfect accord with the old home which they 
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The living-room fireplace, Adden house 
makers understood so well. Some 
of the chairs are of the rush-bot- 
tomed variety, with the painted dec- 
orations so popular then, as now, in 
New England, and the lighting fix- 
tures, china, glass, and other details 
are in perfect agreement with the 
simple and direct character of the 
house itself. 
The dining-room is large and low 
ceiled; it has a fireplace wide and 
deep and a little cupboard over in 
the chimney, where plates could be 
warmed. The woodwork is white, 
the walls covered with a charming 
old-fashioned striped paper, the fur- 
niture old mahogany polished to a 
dull and beautiful surface. At one 
end are four windows placed closely 
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New entrance-hall, Adden house 
together, and through their small 
panes appears the flower garden, 
with its tangle of roses and its bor- 
ders where grow tall hollyhocks, 
larkspur, phlox, and Canterbury 
bells. A problem of particular in- 
terest awaits every architect who is 
given the commission of adapting a 
New England farmhouse to the re- 
quirements of modern life and the 
demands the dweller of to-day 
makes in the matter of those conven- 
iences which shall add to his comfort 
in the home. In the early days of 
the Colonial period, and even later, 
in the middle of the nineteenth cen- 
tury, it was customary in these old 
homesteads for the owner to begin 
his building operations in a limited 
adorn. Most of the furniture is of old mahogany, with the way, later adding rooms to the house as the family increased, 
grace of line and the touch of decoration which the old furniture- more often than providing in advance for the housing of a large 
