The front of the house was made lighter inside by removing the long front veranda, shown in the picture below, using the old columns 
and moldings of pure Greek contour in a simple entrance porch at the front door 
The living-room and dining-room were each made by 
tearing out partitions between two rooms. At the 
right the whole service wing is new 
A 
REMODELED 
FARM HOUSE 
NEAR 
NEW YORK 
Alfred Busselle, 
Architect 
It will be noticed that in the four corners of the old 
structure where the low roof was maintained the 
lower height has been given to closets 
T HE old farmhouse, 
with its splendid 
setting of lawn, and 
grand old trees, with an 
orchard behind, was sub¬ 
stantial but uninhabita¬ 
ble. There was no plumb¬ 
ing, low ceiling, few and 
stuffy bedrooms, yet the 
available structure was 
worth $5,000 or $6,000. 
Two useless parlors 
became an airy living- 
room, the dining-room 
was expanded in a like 
manner; on the south end 
the bedrooms and closets 
became a library, with a 
porch facing the orchard. 
The second floor pre¬ 
sented greater difficulties. 
At the near corner an old bedroom and its closets were turned 
into a library, with a porch on either side 
To remove the roof and 
raise all the walls meant 
00 great cost; but by 
lifting the center part, 
front and rear, like tent- 
flaps, the second story 
yielded four comfortable 
bedrooms and two baths. 
A modern wing gave an¬ 
other main bedroom and 
the servants’ quarters. 
The value of a well 
established setting, often 
with mature shrubbery, 
usually with old trees, 
suggests possibilities in 
remodeling many an old 
house where nature has 
done her part whether 
man has kept up his end of 
it, architecturally, or not. 
(l 59) 
