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HO USE & GARDEN 
“ALLONBY,” THE 
CHARLES PLATT, 
COUNTRY RESIDENCE OF 
ESQ., AT LAVEROCK, PA. 
JOSEPH PATTERSON SIMS, architect 
The house and the garden have been treated as separate units, 
trees and shrubbery surrounding the house, the more formal de¬ 
velopment being kept for the rose and kitchen gardens 
As found, the house looked not unlike Belgium after Von Kluck 
got through with it. As restored and enlarged it is thoroughly 
characteristic of the Pennsylvania stone farmhouse type and truly 
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Stand about where the L is in the living-room on the plan, 
and you command a pleasing vista across the bricked hall 
and through the housedoor to the forecourt 
