April, 1910 | 
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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
The entrance driveway approaches the side of the house opposite that facing Manhasset Bay, and separates 
the house from the garden; the latter was not fairly started when the picture was made 
urious necessities were not so 
regarded. It will be seen from 
the floor plan that only one of the 
six rooms is not immediately 
adjoining a bathroom, and in the 
owner’s suite as in the study 
below, man’s individual rights 
have been asserted and have 
found expression in a built-in, 
tiled shower-bath. 
Throughout the second story, 
as in the first, the scheme of 
furniture and decoration is 
Colonial. Rag rugs are used on 
the bedroom floors, as in the 
dining-room, with cretonne and 
other brightly colored fabrics 
for the hangings and furniture 
coverings. 
Storage space and the ser- 
Look at the first floor plan, for instance. Everything is on 
a generous scale but without ostentation or undue formality. 
The living-room and dining-room are each approximately twenty- 
five feet square, separated by a reception room, fifteen feet square, 
that is entered from the central hall, fifteen by twenty-four feet in 
size. 
To my mind the arrangement of the owner’s study and its 
adjoining photographic darkroom, toilet and telephone closet, is 
one of the most interesting features of the plan. This dark¬ 
room, by the way, is royally equipped with running water, 
enameled sink and glass shelves. 
Opening from the living-room on the fireplace side are French 
windows that lead out upon the great veranda along the Bay side. 
With a total length of eighty-seven feet and a width of thirteen, 
it can readily be surmised that here is the real living-room through¬ 
out the summer months, with the enclosed living-room proper 
merely a withdrawing room for the late evening. 
On the second floor, the abundance of bathrooms at once 
marks the long step forward we have taken in that particular 
direction over the old farmhouse prototype, wherein such lux- 
Fifteen by twenty-five feet makes a hall big enough to 
serve as another living-room 
Along the full length of the house towards the Bay runs the thirteen-feet-wide veranda, 
eighty-seven feet long—the center of things throughout the whole summer season 
vants’ bedrooms are found on 
the third floor, reached, as the 
second-floor plan shows, through 
an isolated back stairway. 
In the garden the plan is very 
simply geometrical, to give easy 
access around the beds and bor¬ 
der of old-fashioned perennial 
flowers, filled in here and there 
with annuals. A row of tall 
Hollyhocks and Golden Glow 
surrounds three sides of the 
flower garden, leaving the lower 
end open to the vegetable garden 
adjoining. In this latter, which 
includes about 150 x 200 feet, 
an abundant store of all the 
vegetables is grown under a 
gardener’s care. 
At the end of the vegetable 
garden stands the garage, with 
comfortable quarters for the 
gardener and his family above 
the motor space. 
