House and Garden 
The level ground near the main road was chosen 
for the front entrance, and the driveway was contin¬ 
ued to the basement entrance at one side. Here, an 
outside door leads to a hall from which cellar and 
laundry are reached, and, by stairway, the kitchen 
above on the main floor. This does away with an 
outside stairway to the kitchen, 
A servant’s bath-room opens from the laundry, 
and the coal and storage closets are arranged in the 
front cellar. The trim in all of the service portion 
is of yellow pine shellacked. The other trim through¬ 
out the house is cypress which is painted white with 
the exception of the stair rail and inside doors on the 
first floor which are birch stained mahogany. 
Both front and rear stairs run from the basement to 
the third floor. The front door (shown in the illus¬ 
tration) is divided horizontally in the so-called 
“Dutch” style with a Colonial knocker on the upper 
half, and the side lights are marked out with curved 
strips of wood painted white. A tiny inside closet is 
fitted into the paneling under one of the side lights 
to aid the postman in delivering letters quickly. 
Inside the hall, at the right and left of the front door, 
are closets for holding out-door wraps and shoes. 
The hall is a place of hospitable expanses, dig¬ 
nified in its architectural treatment, and friendly 
enough in its scheme of furnishing to make it an 
enjoyable sitting place. Looking through the hall 
into the library the attention is held by the open fire¬ 
place which ends the vista from the front doorway. 
FIREPLACE AND MANTEL IN DINING-ROOM 
DETAIL OF FRONT DOOR 
The dining-room at the right of the hallway is 
divided, when necessary, by sliding doors, a form of 
division that is employed in all the other doorways 
on the first floor. 
The mahogany furniture in the dining-room is 
harmoniously backgrounded with walls of deep yel¬ 
low. The fireplace is faced with bricks and the 
mantel is so noticeably good in design that the owner 
of the house is often asked if it has not been especially 
made for its position. It is gratifying to know, when 
so many inartistic fireplaces are found on the mar¬ 
ket, that such a design as this can be obtained at a 
moderate cost. 
A small room that connects the dining-room with 
the living-room may be used for receiving callers, 
as a den or an office. Under the library is another 
sitting-room that is on a level with the ground at the 
rear. With its brick fireplace, and wide window 
ledges it has possibilities for various kinds of quaint 
fittings according to the use to which it is assigned. 
A porch that belongs to this room is divided from the 
laundry porch by a solid shingle wall, with a door of 
the same material and thickness. 
The second floor plan shows the distribution of 
rooms but not the specific achievement of the archi¬ 
tects in bringing into all but one chamber some view 
of the river and mountains at the rear of the house. 
The room marked No. i is arranged for the owner 
and has an alcove or dressing-room, separate bath 
and a balcony. Each of the other chambers has a 
set wash basin and one or more closets. Besides 
a maid’s room on this floor there are other 
rooms finished off' on the floor above for servants and 
visitors. 
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