February, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Colonial lines. The stairway, which 
runs up in the cross hall, was also pre¬ 
served in its original position for the old 
plan. The stair is the conventional white, 
narrow-stepped one, of true Colonial type, 
with mahogany rail. 
To the right of the entrance is the 
•dining-room, a room of the same splendid 
proportions characteristic of the house. 
It was built generously, not alone because 
•of its possibilities for beauty, but because 
here, at last, was room enough to hold the 
family dinner parties when Christmas Day 
arrives. 
Old blue and yellow are the colors 
chosen for the dining-room decoration. 
The rugs carry out the combined tones; 
the draperies are blue, while the walls are 
covered with a gold design on a white 
ground. The woodwork is white and the 
The door to the inside garden duplicates the entrance, making a distinctive 
glimpse through the hall. Here the open arrangement is easily seen 
windows, with their real-lace curtains, red brocade draperies 
and gilt-corniced tops; even the ornaments of least conspicu¬ 
ousness, all awake memories of hoop-skirted grandmothers. 
This room was the “parlor” of the original house. 
At the end of the hall a duplicate of the wide front door 
opens into a small court. Here stone floors and carved stone 
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Stone floors, a carved stone bench and growing 
plants make the court an attractive inside 
garden 
heavy furniture mahogany. Back of the 
dining-room, in a continuation of the 
wing, are placed the pantries and kitchen. 
The isolation of the kitchen from the main 
body of the house is essential in this land 
of open doors. 
Opening from the left side of the hall 
is a drawing-room that is far removed 
from the fragile white and gold affairs of 
the typical modern suburban home. The 
rosewood furniture, with its crimson bro¬ 
cade coverings, bears the quaint design of 
many years agone. The whole room has 
the aspect of having been picked up intact 
and removed from one of Mrs. Mary J. 
Holmes’ story-book houses of the before- 
the-war grandeur. It is charmingly con¬ 
sistent. The long, gilt-framed mirror, on 
its white marble pier table, the portraits 
that cover the walls, the high-ceilinged 
Old blue and yellow are the dominant colors of the dining-room, the draperies blue, the rug a combination of 
those tones, and the paper gold on white. The woodwork is white, the furniture heavy mahogany 
