December, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND 



GARDENS 



467 



The House Is Built of Hard Burned, Sand-finished Red Brick and Stucco of Natural Gray 



Residence of Maxwell Wyeth, Esq., at Rosemont, Pennsylvania 



By Francis Durando Nichols 



HE residence of Maxwell Wyeth, Esq., at 

 Rosemont, Pa., designed by Mr. Wilson 

 Eyre, presents a typical American house, 

 arranged with modified forms. In the 

 characteristic American house of to-day 

 the keen observer can easily discern the 

 effect of the two different tendencies — the 

 one which induces the intelligent architect to adhere to cer- 

 tain authentic types of domestic design, and the one which 

 induces him to modify the type in order to meet the local 

 or personal requirements for the purpose of producing a 



novel and individual effect. A house may adhere so closely 

 to an authentic type that it loses all individual character; or 

 the architect may sacrifice everything in his desire to be 

 original, and may thereby lose the deeper charm which 

 people of taste derive from well designed architectural 

 forms. 



In the designing of Mr. Wyeth's house, Mr. Eyre has 

 demonstrated his personal characteristic by combining the 

 two tendencies with the original effects which dominate all 

 of his work, and has produced a most harmonious whole. 



The house is approached by a curved driveway passing 

 into an inclosed court, where a circular sweep brings one to 

 the entrance porch. The court contains a winding roadway 

 provided with a grassed, circular center. Opposite the en- 

 trance gate is placed another gateway leading to the carriage 



Stable: 

 Court- 



The Plan Shows Well Studied Arrangement of the House and Out-buildings 



