House y Garden 
THE DRIVE 
“SHERREWOGUE” 
such Southern 
country homes, 
as, for instance, 
Mount Vernon. 
This admirable 
union between how 
one lives and what 
one lives in, is 
what Me Kim, 
Mead & White 
have appreciated 
in our early 
Colonial country 
houses, and copied 
in many of their 
modern ones. 
Mount Vernon 
and similar exam¬ 
ples must have 
been wide open 
before the de¬ 
signers, when they 
remodelled Mr. 
Devercux E m - 
met’s place, called 
“ Sherrewogue.” 
There has been no 
conscious striving 
at an effect, at 
architectural fea¬ 
tures or splurges, 
but the simplest 
possible endeavor 
to make an unos¬ 
tentatious country 
house more com¬ 
fortable and better 
looking than 
before. The 
Emmet house 
belongs as admira¬ 
bly in its setting as 
clover in a meadow. 
Although it has 
been changed and 
remodelled, it 
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