October, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 369 
The space which was once three rooms has 
been utilized as a dining-room of beautiful 
proportions, and a breakfast-room which is 
really part of the dining-room itself. The 
other rooms upon the main floor are almost 
unaltered, but the service portion of the 
house was entirely replanned and is almost 
completely new. 
Many beautiful old houses are spoiled by 
the unwise and indiscriminate adding of a 
porch where a porch should not be. Here, in 
the Hopkins house, some kind of a living- 
room had to be provided. This was finally 
built from what appears to have been an old 
open woodshed, broad and low. ‘The sides 
not already open have large doors and shut- 
ters which are open in summer, the entire 
arrangement possessing every feature of a 
modern piazza without its ugliness. 
The upper story of the Hopkins house as 
rearranged has five large bedrooms and a 
bath. Most of these rooms have deep fire- 
places, and the stairways have been so planned and placed constituting the ensemble, dating back to a century ago. 
aD . This old house without and within pos- 
————— sesses many points which might well be 
Sonate studied by the builder of country homes to- 
day. The front, which faces the road, has 
eighteen windows, arranged in horizontal 
rows which might easily become monotonous 
if not skillfully handled. The appearance, on 
the contrary, is delightfully direct and taste- 
ful; the windows are not of undue size and 
seem to have been placed with “informal for- 
mality,” and the small panes give them a 
certain character of their own, particularly 
as a few panes have that very slightly iri- 
descent effect which is so fascinating to the 
student of an old New England building. In 
making the alterations the architects have 
given the little entrance-porch just the note 
of simple dignity required to complete the 
homelike character of this side of the house. 
The opposite side of the old building, while 
more difficult of arrangement, is fully as sat- 
isfying. Imagine the appearance, in un- 
that every room opens directly upon its hallway. One trained, unskillful hands, of a house which has three 
of the bedrooms has been greatly enlarged 
and really remodeled from a low and in- 
suffterably warm garret by adding a row of 
windows in the roof, which arrangement ex- 
tends the ceiling space without breaking the 
beauty of the house’s broad horizontal roof- 
lines. 
In preserving the old-time character of the 
Hopkins house every detail of old-fashioned 
beauty has been retained and ‘“‘amplified.”’ 
The woodwork is plain and almost without 
ornament, but beautifully simple. and correct. 
The old hand-made hardware is still used, 
old cupboards have been discovered or added 
where they seem to fit in, and the old oven is 
still as much a part of the fireplace as the 
andirons or the crane. 
The wall coverings everywhere through- 
out the house have been chosen with taste and 
care, and much the same patterns must have 
been originally used. The house forms the 
setting for a collection of old furniture, mir- 
rors, lamps, and other household furnishings The morning-room, Hopkins house 
The dining-room, Hopkins house 
The entrance-hall, Hopkins house 
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