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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
January, 1914 
in a large and important city residence. The available floor 
space has been used to provide a few very large and spa- 
cious, rather than a greater number of smaller rooms, and 
these various apartments open into one another in a way 
which makes the entire floor available upon formal occa- 
sions. The walls of the “Gothic Room” are faced with 
stone which is carved with the same linen-fold pattern which 
appears upon the panels of the old doors of carved wood 
that open into the rooms adjoining. A great Gothic hooded 
mantel is the chief ornament of this room, and about the 
fireplace are many chairs covered with old tapestry. A beau- 
tiful panel of antique Flemish tapestry hangs upon the 
wall over a great carved chest, upon which are arranged 
several old ecclesiastical statues, old vestments and frag- 
ments of embroidery and other relics of centuries ago. Four 
old lighting fixtures of iron hang at the corners of the room, 
and with their electric candles add to the quaintness of the 
effect. The drawing-room has its walls hung with green 
