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AMERICAN HOMES 



AND GARDENS 



March, 1907 



the house have wooden 

 floors, while the terrace has 

 a floor laid with brick in 

 herring-bone fashion. 



The plan presents a com- 

 pact arrangement of rooms, 

 with a central hall, and 

 rooms on either side. The 

 color effects of the interior 

 have been carefully studied 

 with a view of making the 

 rooms appear as large and 

 light and attractive as pos- 

 sible. The hall, which in 

 reality is a living-room, is 

 fitted up accordingly. It is 

 trimmed with English oak. 

 It has a high wainscoting of 

 oaken battens. The ceiling is 

 beamed with oaken beams, 

 and the wall space between 

 these beams, as well as the 

 wall space above the walns- 



A Circling Roadway Leads Up to the Terrace at the Side of the House 



The Rear of the House Is as Attractive as Its Front 



coting, is covered with Jap- 

 anese grass cloth on which 

 is a decorated stenciled 

 border. The broad, open 

 fireplace has a hearth and 

 facings of a dull green tile, 

 and a mantel of excellent 

 and appropriate style. Op- 

 posite the fireplace is a 

 broad stair-landing from 

 which the stairs ascend to 

 the second floor; this stair- 

 case is of simple design, 

 with paneled newel posts 

 and square balusters. 



The library is painted 

 white throughout. It is 

 surrounded with bookcases 

 and paneled seats, and in 

 one corner is an open fire- 

 place with white enameled 

 facing and hearth, and a 

 mantel of Colonial style. 

 Beyond the library is the 

 billiard-room, which is 

 trimmed with oak and 

 finished in the Flemish 

 style. It has a batten wains- 

 coting, the same as the hall, 



