HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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September, 1911 
The basement contains a laundry, vege¬ 
table room, photographic dark room, fur¬ 
nace and coal storage space. 
The kitchen, pantries, rear hall, etc., are 
ample, and are provided with a red compo¬ 
sition floor that is ideal for such quarters, 
being very sanitary and easily cleaned. All 
the service portion of the house is in white 
wood, natural finish, while all the master’s 
portion, except the living-room, is in cream 
white, with single-paneled doors, in dark 
mahogany. 
One will notice the hardware particu¬ 
larly, the old-fashioned thumb-latch handles, 
placed rather higher than the usual knob 
level. 
All windows are casements, opening out, 
with screens on the inside. A lever oper¬ 
The fireplace at one corner of the great living-room is large enough for one 
to walk in under the Tudor arch. The flue necessary to make it draw 
properly is over two feet square 
long row of casements and a seat, nearly occupy one long side of the 
room. From this, and from the living-room as well, opens the family 
porch, about fifteen feet square. It faces the best view, is exposed 
to the prevailing summer breezes, is far enough from the entrance 
to he private, and is fifteen feet above the street, therefore as se¬ 
cluded as could be desired. 
There are four bedrooms on the second floor and two baths; on 
the third floor, a large bedroom and billiard room, also two servants’ 
rooms and bath, and large stock closet. 
At one side of the living-room, directly opposite the stairs leading down from the recep¬ 
tion room, is a great leaded glass window reaching almost to the eighteen-foot ceiling 
The individuality of Mr. Guilbert’s home 
extends even to the cement sidewalk 
with its border of brick 
ates the window from inside the screen. 
That most interesting and pliable style, 
Dutch Colonial, marks the exterior of the 
house, with low walls and gambrel roof. 
Twenty-four-inch shingles are used as a 
wall covering, laid eleven inches to the 
weather and dipped in white shingle stain, 
afterward brush-coated with the same 
stain. The roof shingles are stained a dark 
gray-green that soon turns to a color that 
looks like a very old shingle. 
Mr. Guilbert feels that his efforts have 
been best complimented by a stranger, an 
old gentleman, who told a neighbor that the 
house was “all right, but too old fashioned.” 
