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broken joints,—a 
space, a square clay 
Plan First Floor 
enclosed in glass; a sun parlor. 
The barn, with its second 
story Hoor removed, and now 
provided with numerous win¬ 
dows and a splendid brick chim¬ 
ney and immense fireplace, is 
the studio. It is the heart ot 
the house,—a large, lofty room, 
with the same board walls and 
rafters that served the barn, hut 
sparely hung with drapery, and 
with picture on picture on the 
walls by this and that famous artist. I'he room is 
furnished simply hut comfortably with divans, a 
desk, a chest, some old furniture and rugs, and with 
the same uneven, hilly floor it always had. 
True, a new floor underneath supports the 
old and makes it firm, but to the eye and to 
the foot the old barn is still the barn, although 
a barn metamorphosed. 
do these two structures was moved first 
the “Aunt Maria” house, so named from 
Mrs. Henry Matthews, who under that pet 
diminutive was known from end to end of 
Cape Cod, and who owned and lived in it. 
d'his house was moved four hundred feet at a 
cost of sixty dollars! Then the farmhouse 
was moved nearly to the Aunt Maria house 
and connected thereto with an entirely new 
structure. Here, then, was the beginning; 
solid brick chimneys — the source of the 
name of the house—rise from the founda¬ 
tions, supporting fifteen open fireplaces and 
the kitchen and laundry stoves, all with sepa¬ 
rate ash dumps to the cellar. Three furnaces, 
one for each house, supply moderately heated 
air in large volume, a scheme at once sanitary 
and safe from a possible fire standpoint. Two 
of the furnaces are of the largest house pattern, 
the third, for the Aunt Maria house, of the 
first church size. The brick chimneys, each 
with a double flue lini 
round clay pipe, an air space, a 
pipe, cemented, and then eight inches of solid 
brick,— go right down to the furnaces, doing 
away with the usual connecting pipe of iron, 
which may rust out and thus cause a fire. The 
pipes from the furnaces, carrying hot air, are 
all covered with asbestos cement, on wire net¬ 
ting with an inch air space between conserving 
heat and preventing fire, and these pipes go 
each but a short distance to hot air Hues of 
solid brick, in the face or top of which the hot 
air registers are set on slate. Idiere being 
nothing which can be burned, in any way con¬ 
necting to the heating arrangements, a fire 
from such a cause is a physical impossibility. 
But fire protection does not stop here. South 
Yarmouth has no fire department and a fire, if it 
occurred when a wind was blowing, might wipe 
“AUNT MARIA’J’ 
three old-fashioned Cape houses, in various stages of 
repair, moved together and connected each to each, 
with a barn to complicate matters. And from this, to 
some it would seem unpromising material, the owner, 
architect and builder has evolved a structure which 
is the wonderment and admiration of all who have 
the privdege of going through it, or, better stdl, of 
stopping in it. 
It is a summer residence, but that does not mean 
that it is not to be used except in summer. The 
heating arrangements are hoth novel and ample and 
in any weather, at any time of the year, the entire 
house is entirely comfortable. Seven enormous 
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the earth. 
In “The House of 
the Seven Chimneys” 
the effort is made to 
produce a house which 
won’t catch fire in the 
first place, rather than 
one which won’t burn 
if it catches. Every 
wall at top and bottom 
and every floor at the 
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