AMERICAN HOMES 
Old oven-hearth in the den, Hopkins house 
chimneys of different 
sizes and shapes, and 
so great a variety of 
dormer windows, 
porches, and_ addi- 
of different 
Here the re- 
tions 
kinds. 
sult is quiet 
ful—the long, sweep- 
and use- 
ing roof reaching al- 
most to the ground 
has been preserved, 
but so arranged that 
retaining this truly 
New England feature 
has not resulted in 
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the hot, stuffy bedrooms which we so often 
associate with picturesque old country homes. 
The interior woodwork seems to have 
been studied with particular care—one can 
hardly tell what is old and what is new. 
How many architects are willing to forego a 
mantel in one of the important rooms of a 
country house and to use instead the plain 
paneling, entirely without ornament, which 
we find in the sitting-room of the Hopkins 
home? ‘The lighting fixtures also seem to 
have been chosen with unusual care, and are 
hardly too decorative for their surround- 
ings, since even the most primitive of early 
New England homes possessed lamps or 
candlesticks of a character surprisingly lux- 
urious. 
This house, after all that remodeling has 
done for it and after all that has been told 
to describe its shift into modernity, gives the 
impression that it still retains something of 
the spirit of its former self. 
The changes made have been serious, cosy, 
spacious, __ beautiful 
and radical enough, 
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Original plan of bedroom floor of 
Hopkins house 
but one may yet feel 
for a moment that 
in a dawn or a twi- 
light gloom the old 
farmhouse is there; 
that a semblance of 
the brand of its old 
Plan of bedroom floor of remodeled 
Hopkins house 
virtue is bound to 
linger a long time. 
Even some _ sound 
might again issue 
and be like an echo 
+ from _ its old halls, 
(ne and none will be- 
grudge it these an- 
cestral hints. 
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side of Mr. Walter Scott Hopkins’ house, showing the long, sweeping roof reaching almost to the ground, as in the old house 
