HOUSE AND GARDEN 
66 
March, 1912 
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Catalogue largely devoted to 
Landscape Architecture on 
Application 
furbelows either inside or out, or at any 
rate if there are any there, they have not 
yet been discovered, nor have they been 
pointed out to him. His aim was the de¬ 
velopment of the simplest elements of 
structure handled as effectively as possible, 
without the addition of anything for dec¬ 
orative effect only. There is nothing 
about the house that has no use or a pur¬ 
pose. The wood trim, for instance, is of 
the simplest possible order and it has even 
been eliminated inside and out as much as 
possible. On the ground floor, all the 
woodwork of the hall, living-room and 
den is in a gray tan, which gives the effect 
of extreme age, and the boarding runs 
from floor to ceiling in the hall and den. 
All the ceilings are beamed in the simplest 
possible manner in these rooms, the real 
beams being encased in chestnut like that 
of the ceiling, and ash is used on the walls 
stained to match the chestnut. The din¬ 
ing-room is the exception to this decora¬ 
tive plan and it might be termed the white 
room. The dado, cornice and woodwork 
around windows and doors are painted 
cafe an lait and the wall covering between 
dado and cornice is grass cloth in a straw 
color, while that of the living-room is a 
mercerized damask in dull gold and tan, 
running clear to the baseboard. 
There is a most original planning of the 
window fixtures throughout the house. 
There is not a I'oller shade to be found 
anywhere, but all the curtains are case¬ 
ment cloth on rods, with separate hangings 
for the main windows and the smaller 
transom windows above, as shown in sev¬ 
eral of the photographs. The floors and 
staircases throughout are plain oak. 
The conspicuous feature of the living- 
room is the handsome Indiana limestone 
fireplace of English design with no shelf. 
It is merely a plain stone opening set into 
the wall, and at either side of it is a built- 
in bookcase. 
The simplicity pervading throughout the 
house is shown in still one other detail, and 
that is in the fixtures. In the dining-room 
there is as a center light, a gold metal burst 
quite appropriate to the general scheme 
of the room, while in the other rooms 
there are very simple little wall fixtures or 
ceiling lights with delicately beaded globes. 
The sun-parlor has a treatment all its 
own, as sun-parlors should. Its walls are 
of plain cement finished like the exterior 
of the house, and the floor is also of ce¬ 
ment, with a brick border around the sides 
and a panel of red brick inserted in the 
center. This room, while used as a sun- 
room during the colder months of the year, 
and then shut in with glass, is in the sum¬ 
mer an open screened porch, and the flower 
boxes which adorn its roof in the summer 
are moved inside for the winter, thus do¬ 
ing double duty. The placing of this room 
where it is and the arrangement for its 
use throughout the year is one of the 
strongest elements in the planning of the 
entire house. 
The stucco of the exterior is laid on gal¬ 
vanized metal lath and the walls are so 
constructed as to give a double air space. 
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