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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1907 



A Pair of Doric Columns Marks the Entrance to the Grounds 



beyond stretches away in ample lawns to the house, which, 

 while by no means situated at the furthest extremity of the 

 property, is located at a considerable distance from the outer 

 highway. 



A splendid curve brings the carriage directly before the en- 

 trance portico. The house is H-shaped, with a central body 

 and wings at cither end, projected on the entrance front. 

 Across the middle is a covered porch, with a projected center, 

 and which at each end is connected with the terraces that are 

 carried all around the house. These terraces, on the entrance 



front, have their own separate steps. At the base of one are 

 carved sphynxes of marble; at the base of the other are up- 

 right lions supporting shields. The house Is two stories in 

 height, with an attic so boldly developed as to have the real 

 architectural character of a third story. Directly in the 

 center is a roof garden, surmounted with a pergola, supported 

 on the front by elaborately carved galnes. The windows are 

 everywhere rectangular in design, with simple frames; those 

 on the ends of the wings are doubled; those elsewhere are 

 single. At each end of each wing, on the entrance front. Is 



The House Is of Wood Pamted White, with Shutters of Indian Red, and Is Abundantly Porched on All Sides 



