House & Garden 
Much is naturally expected of domestic 
architecture at the Philadelphia exhibitions. 
The work of English architects, which distin¬ 
guished the display a few years ago, is now 
absent nor are any foreign exhibitors at all rep¬ 
resented. Among a larger quantity of medi¬ 
ocre work than is 
usual, the designs 
of Mr. Wilson 
Eyre are a delight¬ 
ful relief. He 
exhibits ten frames 
containing perspec¬ 
tive sketches and 
plans of dwellings, 
as well as colored 
elevations of single 
rooms. Several 
photographs ot 
very individual 
work by M r. Gros- 
venor Atterbury 
are a pleasure to 
contemplate; and 
turning again to 
drawings, a large 
rendering by Mr. 
Jules Guerin, of a 
house designed by 
Mr. Lindley John¬ 
son, illuminates an 
end of the gallery 
and bids the visitor 
linger in admiration 
of its beautiful and 
appropriately con¬ 
ventional coloring. 
Other notable 
designs are the 
strongly rendered 
“ Penshurst,” by 
Messrs. Peabody 
and Stearns; 
“ Dreamwold,” the 
farm of Thomas 
W. Lawson, Esq., 
by Messrs. Cool- 
idge & Carlson ; 
cottages by the 
Messrs. Boyd and 
others by Mr. 
John Lavalle. 
Garden-craft is 
represented by a number of plans in pen 
and ink, contributed by Messrs. Olmsted 
Brothers, Mr. Eyre’s and Mr. Day’s happy 
schemes of unifying house and garden; several 
water color sketches by Mr. C. G. Harris, and 
appreciative little sketch-plans by Mr. Arthur 
A. Shurtleff. Mr. 
C. W. Leavitt, Jr., 
exhibits photo¬ 
graphs of executed 
gardens and their 
architectural de¬ 
tails, while the 
growing desire tor a 
garden as an adju net 
to a house is re¬ 
vealed bya perfunc¬ 
tory and half-in¬ 
telligent inclusion 
ot a garden in the 
sketch ot the house 
by the hands of less 
skilful artists than 
we have named. 
In the field of 
decorative work, 
Mr. Nicola D’As- 
cenzo exhibits 
twelve excellent 
schemes in color 
for glass and wall 
decoration. From 
the C ha p m a n 
Decorative Com¬ 
pany have come 
several Scriptural 
scenes, well por¬ 
trayed for the J ew- 
ish Kenesth-Israel 
Temple in Phila¬ 
delphia, and the 
Messrs. Haber- 
stroh contribute a 
beautifully exe¬ 
cuted reproduction 
of a door in Marie 
Antoinette’s bou¬ 
doir at Eontaine- 
bleau, which speci¬ 
men of good crafts¬ 
manship has been 
relegated to an 
outer hall where 
A STREET REFUGE AND ELECTROLIER 
SUBMITTED IN A N. Y. MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY 
COMPETITION BY THOS. R. JOHNSON 
