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with hand-rived cypress shingles, weathering 
twelve to fourteen inches; the roofs are like¬ 
wise shingled, but have been left unstained 
and turned the silver gray which the salt 
atmosphere invariably produces in this local¬ 
ity. The small farm buildings have their 
sidewalls covered with clapboards; and all 
the buildings are spotlessly white. 
The eightcolumns supportingthemain por- 
front of the window facing the entrance door. 
Beyond the music-room are the breakfast and 
dining-rooms, and beyond these again, in the 
two ells, are the pantries, kitchen, servants’ 
halls and quarters. From the library one goes 
through the conservatory to the studio, gun 
and bicycle rooms; squash-court building, 
with its dressing-rooms, etc., beyond. The 
principal rooms are all of a very good size : the 
THE NEW CONSERVATORY AND THE STUDIO 
tico are Doric and of considerably slenderer 
proportions than the box columns which carry 
Mt. Vernon’s main entablature. T he roof 
line in the center of the house is broken by a 
white-railed piazza; chimneys are all painted 
white and topped with a dark border. 
The visitor enters the house directly into 
a T-shaped hall, fifteen feet broad, running 
between the music-room and the library. 
Terminating the entrance hall is a wide spiral 
stair, oval in plan, with a broad landing in 
“ THE ORCHARD ” 
studio thirty-eight by forty feet, the music- 
room and library about twenty-five feet 
square, and the dining-room excellently pro¬ 
portioned, about twenty-one by twenty-eight 
feet. There is throughout a feeling of breadth 
and sunlight. This has been carried out in 
all the details, with the exception of the low 
ceilings. The French casement windows, 
with wide panes between the muntins, the 
eight-foot door openings, and the fireplaces 
with openings alone, five feet wide, and the 
