The Small House Which is Good 
Mr. H. R. Gummey’s House 
Geo. T. Pearson, Architect 
T HIS house, built in Germantown, Philadelphia, 
shows the successful results attending the 
effort to enclose within a pure Colonial treat¬ 
ment of exterior, a small house of moderate cost, 
possessing not only the modern and essential con¬ 
veniences, but maintaining at the same time through¬ 
out the interior the key-note sounded by the outward 
design. 
The exterior walls are of brick, white pebble- 
dashed above a stone base of coursed ashlar. The 
roof is covered with green slate. 
The front entrance is reached by ascending from 
either side to a central platform, by stone steps hav¬ 
ing a light iron railing, with the old style openwork 
posts and brass knobs. The doorway is of charac¬ 
teristic Colonial simplicity of detail, with pilasters on 
either side supporting the usual entablature, all of 
course, painted white. The door is of mahogany 
and the transom is of the fan pattern. The green 
blinds or shutters and the small lights of glass in 
the upper sash of the windows, the dormers, the 
middle one with the “bonnet top” finish, the cornice, 
and the quaint truncation of the gambrel roof, all 
tend to emphasize the great simplicity of the design. 
The interior finish throughout follows the Colonial 
detail and is mostly of painted wood. 
The arrangement is simple and opens up in a very 
delightful way. The entrance hall, with the library 
on the right and reception-room on the left, leads 
to the stairway hall at the rear and has an elliptical 
arch separating it from the stairway hall. From the 
latter, entrance to the dining-room and service rooms 
is effected. 
From the dining-room as well as from the library 
French windows lead to a spacious veranda at the 
side of the house. 
The dining-room has china closets in two of the 
corners with glass doors and the “bonnet top” 
finish over same. The mantels throughout the house 
are of refined treatment and are painted white, the 
same as all other wood finish. 
1 he stairway has a white painted balustrade with 
■ mahogany hand-rail and mahogany treads and risers. 
1 he second floor as planned was to meet special 
needs and large rooms are the result. The third 
story contains three good rooms and a large linen 
closet, besides good storage space. The floors on 
first story are finished in hardwood and covered with 
Oriental rugs. The furnishings throughout are in 
• good taste and much old mahogany carries out the 
scheme of the architect’s design. 
The Williams Residence 
E. G. W. Dietrich, Architect 
T HE house of Mr. John Williams near Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., is most favorably situated on the 
banks of the Connecticut river at the junction 
of two streets, facing the end of a fine wide avenue, 
which is the main approach to the house. At one 
side of the house is a large garden planted with shrubs 
and old-fashioned flowers, which with the trees at the 
rear, makes a good setting for the house, in the 
exterior of which the architect has secured a certain 
rustic effect by the use of field-stones and shingles. 
The stonework is laid up in cement mortar. The 
moss and lichens covering them have been carefully 
preserved and the variegated coloring caused by long 
exposure to the elements is heightened by the wide 
deep joints from which the mortar has been raked out, 
producing delightful shadow effects. The shingles on 
the walls and gables are of white cedar treated with 
bleaching oil, producing a beautiful silver gray tone. 
The roof shingles are stained a moss green and all 
exterior trim is painted a light shade of cream. 
The house has a length of fifty-nine feet and a 
depth of thirty-two feet, exclusive of the porch. 
The ceilings of both stories are nine feet high. 
All interior finish is of cypress painted cream 
white except the dining-room which is stained a dark 
brown and rubbed down to a velvet finish. 
The hall has a paneled wainscoting five feet high. 
The moulded wainscot cap, the hand-rail and newel 
posts are of mahogany. The window on the stair¬ 
way is filled with leaded glass in pale green shades. 
The fireplaces are of generous dimensions faced 
with tile and framed with mantels of Colonial design. 
The kitchen department is very complete and 
none of the modern conveniences for the comfort 
of the housewife have been overlooked. 
The second floor has four large bedrooms with 
ample and well arranged closets and hot and cold 
water in each room. A modern bath-room with every 
convenience is placed for easy access from all rooms. 
The exposure of the several rooms has governed 
the scheme of decoration for each with particular 
appropriateness. Open fireplaces, which are the 
best ventilators, are provided in the bedrooms. 
The studio has a high ceiling extending up to the 
peak of the roof with large windows letting in a flood 
of northern light, and a large fireplace faced with 
field-stone makes of this a cheerful workroom. 
All floors throughout the house are hard pine 
finished in wax. In planning, special attention has 
been paid to wall space for the best placing of the 
furniture and pictures. 
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