“I WOULD MAKE AN ENTRANCE FAR DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IS COMMONLY 
LOOKED FOR” 
sidered. One called for an 
entrance from Goddard Ave¬ 
nue, setting off for sale the site 
of the old Amory house and its 
entrance from Warren Street. 
This proposal was abandoned. 
Another proposed to keep the 
road as it was, or at least to 
change it as little as possible. 
The objections to this were 
that it divided the ground 
north of the house into two 
parts (a serious fault) and in 
order to connect with the 
new house it required the cut¬ 
ting away of part of the bank 
of foliage, fts sole advan¬ 
tage was economy; its justifi¬ 
cation bolding to an ap¬ 
proach that people were 
accustomed to. 1 he final 
suggestion was to build a new 
road to the west of the valley 
and make a pond in the valley 
of about half an acre in ex¬ 
tent with a depth of water 
in the middle of about 4 feet. 
The excavated material was to be used to 
lay out the road. The steepest grade of this-road 
would be one in fourteen and this only for a 
short distance. So far as the location of the road 
was concerned, the third plan was followed. But 
the pond was never made. This road proved 
“THE KITCHENS AND STABLES TO 
entirely satisfactory, and is to-day beautiful and 
serviceable, forming a fitting approach to the house. 
The service road branches off to the left about 
300 feet from the entrance as shown on the plan 
and goes directly to the kitchens and stables. The 
objections to this arrangement are: it involves the 
common use of part of the main approach for 
both family and service; it 
breaks through the centre of 
the ground to the north of the 
house and it is not easily 
screened without shutting out 
from the house the view of 
this pleasant valley. But the 
valley between Warren Street 
and the house is at all other 
points so deep that the con¬ 
struction of a separate service 
road across it would scarcely 
have been justified. 
1'he kitchens and stables 
are very conveniently located 
at the eastern end of the house, 
and yet they are so well de¬ 
signed and the ground about 
them is so successfully planted 
that they add rather than 
detract from the beauty of 
the house scene. The good 
use of conifers, as shown in 
the photograph, is worthy of 
imitation. The greenhouses, 
THE RIGHT, SKILFULLY SCREENED BY CONIFERS” 
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