House <y Garden 
the cornice and frieze of the entire house, are 
of the most ornamental Colonial type. Un¬ 
ornamented mouldings or frieze-bands would 
never coincide with the owner’s need of pro¬ 
fuse decoration. The gables, as well as the 
sides of the house, are covered with pebble- 
dash,cartloads ofsmooth white pebbles picked 
from the shore below, having been pressed 
into the yellow 
cement. The 
effect is exceed¬ 
ingly success¬ 
ful, both as far 
as tone and 
texture are con¬ 
cerned. The 
woodwork, 
consisting of 
unusually full 
cornices, the 
railing on the 
roof, the cir¬ 
cular-headed 
gable windows, 
the piazzas, all 
the trimming, 
as well as the 
quoins forming the various corners, have been 
painted spotlessly white. These frame very 
effectively the warmer ochre surface of the 
sides of the house. The olive blinds and 
topping of chimneys stand out in strong relief. 
At both ends of the entrance hall are old 
Colonial doorways, with unusually fine leaded 
glass designs and mouldings covered with 
ornament. It is not a country house inside, 
at least not on the ground floor, but more 
nearly a museum, for bits of carving, silks, 
architecture, etc., stand upon the floors and 
cover the walls. To the west is the living- 
room, twenty-seven by forty feet, with the 
piazza running around its three sides. At 
its end, an old carved stone Italian mantel 
forms a frame tor the fireplace, wide enough 
for the largest logs. The owner has attempted 
to increase the height of the low ceilings of 
the old house 
by employing 
iron beams in 
thi s room to 
support the 
flooring above, 
and the iron 
flanges of the 
former have 
been permitted 
to protrude per¬ 
fectly frankly 
and uncovered. 
The walls, as 
well as the ceil- 
ingof this room 
and the hall, 
are covered 
with screens of 
reeds, loosely tied together. The north side, 
of not only this room, but practically the 
whole side of the house is glazed—for the 
owner felt that not even square inches of 
wall space intercepting the beautiful view 
beyond, could be tolerated. T he hall, nine 
feet broad north and south, widens to eighteen 
feet upon the east, and is tiled with large red 
til es. Both risers and treads of the stairs, 
as well as the stepped sides, which form their 
balustrade, are covered with large green tiles. 
THE PORCHES UPON THE NORTH 
THE OVAL CARRIAGE TURN BEFORE THE HOUSE 
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