Dutch Byways in New Jersey 
many of the old farms which he has con¬ 
solidated into a great dairy farm of over 
one thousand acres. Mr. Ewing has over¬ 
hauled several of the old houses which 
have been rented as summer cottages. In 
the Packer House a wide porch was added, 
and the second storey finished off into four 
bedrooms and a bath. There was a good 
cellar beneath the entire cottage. Here 
again the interior trim and details are re¬ 
markable when one considers the origin of 
these houses. One naturally does not expect 
except that the columns are swelled at the 
centre and attenuated at the ends in a way 
not customary, but showing a refined feeling 
for form and line quite astonishing. Adjoin¬ 
ing the mantel in the parlor is a cupboard of 
equal merit. 
One might rake the rural districts of the 
country with a fine comb without, to-day, 
finding an artisan capable of designing and 
executing such work as this. It must be 
remembered that this house contained orig¬ 
inally only three rooms and a wide hallway, 
PARLOR OF THE PACKER HOUSE, WYCKOFF 
much artistic element in a little farmhouse 
built about one hundred years ago upon a 
not too fertile slope and far from any town of 
size. Paterson, some eight miles away, is 
only about a century old itself and so could 
not have influenced the neighborhood until 
a much later date, yet the doors are well 
panelled and the two mantels, one in the 
parlor and the other in the dining-room, 
are beautiful. They are carved by hand, of 
course, and of a type quite prevalent here, 
so that it was clearly a small farmhouse and 
unquestionably budt without the assistance 
of an architect. 
I cannot refrain from mentioning the little 
nest on the Goffle Hill Road, which shows how 
these houses are sometimes overrun with 
honeysuckle and buried in shrubs and flowers. 
In this house lives a little old lady, eighty- 
four years of age, who hesitatingly asked me 
to take her picture when I was securing this 
photograph; and who was infinitely pleased 
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