November, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



415 



gateway one enters the court in front of the house. The impres- 

 sion at once obtained of the mansion is its generous proportions 

 and its elongated effect. It is a large central building, three 

 stories in height, surmounted by a hipped roof, relieved by a row 

 of dormer windows. Colonnades, extending in either direction 

 from the main building, connect with wings, one containing the 

 kitchen and service rooms and the other the loggia and the 

 ballroom. 



The house was built in a most substantial manner, and in those 

 days when honest workmanship was preferred to shoddy display. 

 It is constructed of red brick, which have grown old with age, har- 

 monizing well with the black of the steep slated roof, that blends 

 into the deep green of the superb tulip poplars which sweep the 



of hammered iron in which the arms of the Byrd 

 family are interwoven, but are almost lost in the 

 luxuriant growth of vines which overhang them. 



The House Is Built of Red Brick which Has Mellowed with Age 



roofs and shield the broad facade from too inquisitive 

 a view from the river below the house. 



There is a closely clipped lawn, which is inclosed within 

 a red brick wall, broken on either side by gateways, pro- 

 vided with square brick pillars and ornamental iron gates. 

 The avenues from the boat landings end in smaller gates 



The picturesque entrance ways which are placed at either 

 side of the house are reached by a series of three-sided stone 

 steps. The entrance doorway from the roadway has a storm 

 vestibule, inclosed with glass, with Corinthian pilasters and a 

 classic pediment. The doorway of the river front of the 

 house has similar pilasters and capitals, its pediment being 



