HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 
19*5 
and without the house. By such means 
can be indicated the healthier outdoor life 
of our suburban communities, the near re¬ 
lation between Mother Earth and our 
living habitations, the greater dependence 
placed upon outdoor air and exercise 
rather than on indoor living. 
Finally, as to the door itself! Gone, the 
inevitable white doorway of yesteryear, 
and gone along with it is the sounding 
brass, so difficult to keep clean, and the be¬ 
traying smudge of Bertillion finger prints 
on the white paint around knob and key¬ 
hole. In their place we find more fre¬ 
quently a door of natural wood, stained, 
to the informal and somewhat more dash¬ 
ing vigor of cypress or the more polished 
and refined veneer of walnut. With such 
doorways have come the duller gleam of 
bronze or the attractive feel of wrought 
iron for hardware. Instead of the garish 
top and side lights, too often used as an 
excuse for more dinky and fussy orna¬ 
mentation of interfoliated glass, we have 
a framework of sufficient strength to hold 
the door firmly and graciously within its 
setting. A sense of protection for those 
standing without the threshold may be 
provided by a simple hood, architecturally 
related to the frame of the door, or some¬ 
times even more successfully tied to the 
down-sweeping lines of roof eaves of tim¬ 
ber. Occasionally even a less formal 
shield for the doorway can be provided by 
secluding it between seats, thus seeming to 
provide shelter and proffer hospitality at 
one and the same time. Sometimes the 
still greater informality of lattice can be 
utilized to support a roof for protection 
and seclude the caller for the few awk¬ 
ward moments he is waiting for admission, 
a seclusion that can still further be in¬ 
creased by a judicious growth of vines ; or 
the location of adjacent flower beds of tall, 
old-fashioned hollyhocks. 
Sometimes the doorway is recessed 
actually inside the front wall of the build¬ 
ing, allowing one to enter through an in¬ 
viting archway of brick or plaster; some¬ 
times a modest and unpretentious top light, 
or a light of glass glazed somehow within 
the design of the door itself, permits a 
glimpse of the interior, or provides those 
within the door an opportunity of scru¬ 
tinizing the one waiting without. By 
breaking away from the old Colonial plan, 
with its inevitable center door and en¬ 
trance, it becomes possible to nestle the 
main house doorway unostentatiously into 
the shelter of some projecting bay, or to 
tie it into the lee of an ecpially protecting 
chimney. 
All this, too, serves to reflect our ac¬ 
ceptance of the English idea of the en¬ 
trance doorway being, after all, an incon¬ 
spicuous and—on the street front, at 
least — a comparatively unimportant part 
of the dwelling. It permits one to enter 
or leave the house with the utmost of sim¬ 
plicity and the least amount of preten¬ 
sion. Rarely does the garish port-cochere 
become a part of the English home prob¬ 
lem ; certainly never in the way it flaunts 
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THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS 
1828 EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS OF SUPREMACY 1915 
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