April, 1914 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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house have been able 
to make the interior 
most attractive with 
furnishings consist- 
ing of beautiful Co- 
lonial pieces, many 
of which are heir- 
looms. In the living- 
room the open grate 
is a line specimen of 
the early type picked 
up by the owners at 
the wrecking of one 
of New York's 
famous old eastside 
residences in the 
downtown section, 
where many valuable 
specimens of door- 
ways, staircases and 
fireplaces with beauti- 
ful over-mantels were to be found, and some of them have 
fortunately found their way into the newer residences of 
to-day. 
The problem of closet room so necessary to the house- 
wife and so difficult to handle in the square type of house 
has been met with in a successful manner. One of the 
most ingenious pieces of handling in the design is the pre- 
servation of good head room on the upper floor. Here the 
architect has utilized the long slope or dormer side of the 
house for passage and closet room, thus economizing on 
every inch of space, for the picturesque dormer windows 
have been used to light the hall and bathroom instead of 
the bedrooms, providing artistic effect on the exterior with- 
out losing any comfort on the interior. 1 he bathroom, a 
place where head room is not of such vast importance, has 
been placed at the end of the hall accessible from all the 
bedrooms and well 
located from a 
plumbing standpoint. 
At each side of the 
centre dormer win- 
dow are seats, the 
lids of which can be 
raised, and forming 
locker space for 
storage. 
I'he space under 
the staircase leading 
to the second floor 
has artordcd a most 
convenient location 
for a coat closet. In 
the p r i n c i p a I beil- 
room two closets of 
ample size have been 
provided, in the sec- 
o ml beilroom the 
space over the staircase has been utili/eil for closet room, 
and in the third bedroom a small portion taken ofl the 
bathroom where it is not missed has provided ample closet 
room. rhe bathroom being lighted by one ot the dormer 
windows is unusually pleasant. The principal bedroom has 
four windows, and the thiril bedroom two, so that execllent 
light and cross ventilation are provided in each. 
The piazza, most of which runs along the back portion 
of the house, aflords a shady retreat from the afternoon 
sun. d'he placing of the piazza in this location ratlier 
than in the front of the house, has several advantages, 
that of privacy being by no means the least, and the pleasure 
of being able to watch the garden’s progress at sucli times 
as going among the flowers wouKl be undesirable. Ituleeil 
gardens both back and front of a liouse are features that are 
always most desirable for the small house. 
