March, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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cot the walls are treated with large panels 

 of canvas, with tinfoil painted yellow, and 

 painted with designs similar to those used 

 in the ceiling. The fireplace, which extends 

 to the doorway, consists of a single vast slab 

 of green and white marble. A small shelf 

 of the same material projects above the fire- 

 place opening. The chimney breast is 

 enclosed within a large panel of wood. 

 The upper divisions of the windows 

 are filled with leaded glass. The cur- 

 tains are green silk, embroidered with 

 gold and silver; behind them are white sash 

 curtains. A warm brown rug fills the center 

 of the hardwood floor. Much of the fur- 

 niture is antique, including the two side- 

 boards and a fine old cabinet filled with 

 china. The door to the pantry is con- 

 cealed behind a large screen with old 

 French color prints in its upper section. 

 The chairs are covered with carved leather. 

 There is no chandelier, the room being 

 lighted with silver sidelights. 



The drawing-room occupies the cor- 

 responding position on the other side of the 

 hall. The woodwork throughout Is white. 

 On the water side is a shallow bay window, en- 

 closed within an ornamental frame and containing a built-in 

 window seat. A wood wainscot is carried completely 

 around the room save where It Is interrupted by the book- 

 cases, which fill a goodly portion of the lower wall 

 surface. The walls are covered with a green colored cloth 

 with small silver circles. The doors and windows have 



lass-enclosed Piazza Used as a Sun Rc 



The Entrance Driveway Is Bordered with a Mass of Shrubs and Flowering Plants 



well molded frames. The entrance bay is curved at 

 each end with a decorated wood pilaster whose brackets 

 reach to the ceiling. The ceiling is decorated in the Pom- 

 pelian style with a broad outer border of green, and a white 

 center with pictorial medalions In the margin. The fireplace 

 Is of wood and occupies the center of the further wall. It 

 Is designed In a monumental style, with corner pilasters reach- 

 ing to the ceiling. The fireplace has a facing of yellow mar- 

 ble, and over the shelf Is an oblong mirror, built-in. An 

 Immense white bearskin is laid on the floor. There Is a 

 multitude of objects of interest in this room, the tops of the 

 bookcases at every available place being crowded with 

 brIc-a-brac of the most interesting sort. The mantel orna- 

 ments are beautiful pieces of old glass ware. 



A passage floored with mosaic connects this room with 

 the den on the entrance front and the living-room, which, 

 as has been said, occupies the whole of the further wing 

 of the house. In the passage is a closet with running water 

 for arranging flowers. It Is three steps down and a splen- 

 did and delightful apartment, quite the largest in the house 

 and In some respects the most interesting. It is divided 

 into three great bays by three standing columns which reach 

 from floor to celling. At each end is a half circle window, 

 that is, three windows In one. The woodwork is painted 

 white. There Is a paneled wainscot around the base of the 

 walls, which are covered with red burlap. The panels of 

 the ceiling have a gray ground. The room is extraordi- 

 narily brilliant In color, the rich red of the walls affording 

 a fine background to the columns and white woodwork. 

 Red, indeed. Is the predominating tone. The curtains are 

 red damask and the mantel, which Is of white wood, has 

 a fireplace with a facing of red marble. On the shelf are 

 many beautiful pieces of old red and white glass, and 

 many other specimens of the same ware are disposed 

 throughout the room. It is literally crowded with Inter- 

 esting objects of every imaginable sort. Antique bronze 

 lamps of various designs depend from the four corners. 

 There are old clocks, old mirrors, old engravings, a ver- 

 itable museum of antiques, all chosen with great care and 

 all admirably disposed. 



Mr. Burtln's office adjoins the living-room. Originally 

 designed as a porch Its open sides have been enclosed, and 

 It now forms a very useful as well as a very attractive 

 apartment. It is somewhat shallow In dimensions and is 



