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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1907 



The Residence of William J. Serrill, Esq., Haverford, Pa. 



By Abel Welch 



The 

 which 



HE house built for William J. Serrill, Esq., 

 at Haverford, Pa., is designed and built in 

 the English style of stone and half timber. 

 A winding driveway leads from the road to 

 the piazza. The balustrade and the first 

 story are built of rock-faced stone, of gray 

 color, laid with broad white mortar joints, 

 second and third stories are beamed, forming panels, 

 are filled in with stucco, of a soft gray color, while 



the beams are painted a bottle green. The building is 

 crowned with a roof covered with shingles and left to 

 weather finish. The chimneys are low and squatty, and are 

 built of brick, and finished with stone caps. 



The plan of the interior is excellent, and shows a large 

 central hall extending through the house, with a library at 

 one side, and a dining-room on the other, while the kitchen 

 and its dependencies are placed In the extension which Is at 

 the rear. 



A Half Timber House in the English Style 



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