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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February. 1912 
The use of successive lawns makes possible a beautiful vista, especially when framed by arch and arbor, 
path of irregular flagstones runs to the sun-dial, branches about it and leads to the lawn below 
The 
had irrefutable evidence of a continuous existence from seventeen 
hundred and dash, the owners made up their minds to build a 
Pitman Colonial house. That is. they would embody in their 
plans the things that were most suggestive of the period to them: 
some features that they thought were very fine they ai)propriated 
from one house, some from another, and when their suggestions 
approached a concrete plan the genius of the architect was set to 
work to make such selections as were compatible with unity. 
A simple, dignified clapboard house, given strength and solidity 
by end walls of brick con¬ 
taining the chimneys, was 
the result, and it was built 
in among magnificent tall 
trees which shaded the 
doorway and framed the 
place in green boughs. 
The fence and doorway 
were chosen to heighten the 
Colonial impression. The 
gateway now grown over 
with clematis has a double 
swinging gate opened by an 
attractive latch. It opens 
on a box-bordered, brick- 
paved path and discloses a 
doorway of the Salem type 
above two broad stone 
steps. The side panels 
beside the Doric capitals 
have a simple leaded de¬ 
sign that is matched by a 
somewhat similar pattern in 
the flanking green lattice 
fastened to the house wall. 
The outside door is of the 
shutter type that one asso¬ 
ciates with homes of the 
Revolutionary era. 
Trimmed bay trees are set 
at the end of this walk ad¬ 
jacent to the house. 
Such is the impression of 
the entrance, and it is a fit 
introduction to the gardens 
that lie beyond. As the house was planned, so was the garden. 
It was to be Pitman first and then Colonial afterward. There 
were numerous considerations also of importance, however. 
First a partiality for Milton’s “gardens trim” and the “smooth- 
shaven green” that one remembers with pleasure of the English 
homes. They liked the divided beds of Colonial tradition, but 
were not so much in favor with the stiffness of the evergreen 
hedges that so often framed in the flowers of the early Amer¬ 
ican gardens. Finally a plan was evolved that satisfied all 
The extreme end of the long lawn with the service yard fence on the left and the 
vine-covered entrance to the seed bed in the center 
On the intersecting paths is set a stone lantern, and 
beyond it the inviting entrance to the summer-house 
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