Additions and Alterations to an Old House at Chestnut Hill, Pa. 
grooved partition to receive the 
dining-room table leaves. Under 
one counter there is a plate 
warmer, and under the other a 
tilting ice chest for keeping fruit, 
salads, wine, etc., cool. 1 he floor 
is of asbestolith, with a cove base 
turned up and carried to the height 
of the window sills. 
The linen closet is a model one, 
with shelves on both sides, and a 
sliding ladder suspended from a 
track on the ceiling runs between 
them. On one side every shelf is 
a separate closet, as it were, each 
having a door hinged to it which 
drops down, suspended by chains, 
so as to double the width of the 
shelf which is being inspected. 
On the opposite side there are 
cabinets with glass doors, for 
table linen, etc., and up to counter 
height the drawers are of unusual 
length, so that sheets may be put 
in them without unnecessary fold¬ 
ing, and on account of the great 
weight of their contents, these 
run on ball-bearing wheels. 
Another feature is a moth-proof closet for curtains, 
equipped with long round ash poles, which are placed 
at intervals of about a foot apart on overhead racks, 
so that it is possible to lay curtains over the poles in 
an adjoining room and then carry them into this 
closet on the poles, which are then set in the racks— 
thus enabling the curtains to be stored without 
folding. 
In the new part the chimneys are 
at the rear, enabling the ash-pit doors 
to be outside instead of in the cellar— 
thus ashes do not even have to pass 
through the cellar, and the basement 
kitchen being some feet above ground 
makes the same possible there. 
Out-of-door life has been the chief 
consideration. The loggia though 
sheltered is so lofty and so h gh 
above the ground as to appear to be 
entirely open to the sky. From it 
three broad steps lead down to the 
walled terrace with its rich balustraded 
balconies, and a longer stairway gives 
direction to the out- 
of-door plan as it 
starts towards the 
formal garden. 
Leading through a 
little raised garden 
huddled in the an¬ 
gles of the wall, in 
the centre of which 
is a sculptured sun¬ 
dial marking the 
intersection of im¬ 
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PI.AN OF THE SECOND FLOOR 
portant vistas, this place serves as a vestibule 
to the more elaborate garden on the hills de, whose 
pergola and two stone garden houses develop to 
the right and left of the main view line as seen from 
the loggia far above. 
In the tight embrace of this smiling composition is 
a reflecting mirror, which some day may illumine the 
loveliness of the garden at night by means of an 
electric fountain. In the planting around the basin 
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