House & Garden 
with small hand rails on each side. At the 
end of the living-room terminating the house 
is a broad window, and then the large piazza 
facing the bay and, a quarter of a mile beyond, 
the wooded shore of Long Island Sound. 
The billiard-room, library, hall and dining¬ 
room, and the service parts, make up the old 
house. The living-room and porch are 
entirely new. t he second floor of the house 
has bedrooms, baths and dressing-rooms; the 
service wing and attic are reserved for the 
servants. Throughout, the woodwork is 
painted white, the cornice, the trim and the 
mouldings, and most especially the mantel 
in the living-room, are most refined in the 
feeling of their detail. The library bookcases, 
with their cupboards below and heavy 
muntined glass doors above, running all the 
way up to the cornice, are copied from the 
Mount Vernon library. The furniture 
throughout has the substantial solidity and 
dignified assurance of the best mahogany, and 
the effect is one of green and white, cool, 
cleanly, well-arranged and spacious comfort. 
Taking the plan as a whole one detects 
that the architects did not have the entire 
benefit of starting with a fresh sheet, but of 
the cramped conditions ot an old house, 
they made the best possible growth, without 
any distortion. On the outside they merely 
continued in the new wing, the broad white 
shingles, typical of the Long Island land¬ 
scape, and carried the old cornice and roof 
lines through the new addition. The living- 
room and porch are set slightly back similar 
to the service wing on the opposite end of 
the house. 
Summing it up, the reasons for the success 
of Mr. Emmet’s place seem to me to be these : 
it belongs entirely in its surroundings, the 
garden and house are perfectly homogeneous, 
forming gradual transitions one to the other, 
and the total effect satisfies natural condi¬ 
tions. It looks absolutely like a home. 
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