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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 
Chestnut strips are used on the dining-room wall and give the effect of the paneling 
and at the same time the treatment affords a pleasing variety 
From the living-room the billiard-room opens out at a lower level. All doors and 
windows are of leaded glass with square panes 
From the piazza right through the billiard-room there is an 
open sweep that makes all the rooms airy 
now that it is completed it represents just what the 
owner was seeking for, and as this is due in a large de¬ 
gree to the way he went about planning for it, it may 
help others who cherish a desire to build. 
Mr. Francis Wurzburg set to work crystalizing his 
desires for some years before he consulted his architect. 
He made up his mind about what he most wanted. This 
was first of all that sort of comfort that is suggested 
by the wide leather cushioned chairs, solid and of 
natural finished wood. Call it handicraft or craftsman 
or mission, the type is well known and universally ap¬ 
proved. He decided that the living quarters should all 
have this feeling. They were to give him the acme of 
ease and enjoyment, and whatever formality was needed 
— if any ever was — could be supplied by the individuals 
rather than the house. That must be devoted primarily 
to utilitarian considerations. 
With this end in view, he began collecting his com¬ 
fortable furniture. When the collection threatened to 
overflow his temporary residence he summoned his ar¬ 
chitect and requested a house to contain it. There were 
certain demands in addition; the house must be spa¬ 
cious, airy, and especially generous of hearth. The 
furniture was eloquent; the suggestion of fireplace ac¬ 
cented the picture. The architect looked at the site and 
when the paper expression of the house was complete 
both owner and architect felt that satisfaction would re¬ 
sult. The completed product proves this true. 
Mr. Wurzburg’s house faces directly south. It is of 
stucco rough cast and finished in a warm cream tone, 
while in harmony with this is the brown color of all the 
One of the bedrooms adjoins the sleeping porch and provides a warm 
dressing-room for those who brave the weather outside 
The bedroom reduplicates the figured frieze in hangings and in the 
counterpane. The color obtained is in pleasant contrast to the wall 
