HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1910 
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While the small cuttings of English Ivy were making their slow growth 
the broad surfaces of new masonry were temporarily covered with Vir¬ 
ginia Creeper and Japanese Ivy which were gradually removed 
In the double pergola extending out from one end of the main house"a 
dozen kinds of flowering vines are represented, giving from spring 
to fall intermittent flares of color against the dense foliage 
rolling meadow and woodland 
of Eastern Pennsylvania. A 
thick grove of oaks, chestnuts, 
and spruces — all splendid old- 
growth specimens—forms a 
magnificent background for 
the house to the north, shel¬ 
tering its main entrance. 
Lyndanwalt reflects clear¬ 
ly the personality of its owner. 
It portrays the home of a 
typical American gentleman 
who has fought and won the 
battles of business and pur¬ 
poses to devote his remaining 
years to the full enjoyment 
of his rural possessions. To 
be sure, it has cost a small 
fortune to achieve the result, 
but money alone could never 
have made Lyndanwalt. There is here something more than a 
mere house. Compare it, for instance, with some of the great 
country places of wealthy Americans where unlimited means 
have resulted merely in cold palaces or forbidding castle-like 
strongholds that are anything 
but inviting, anything but 
homes suited to their environ¬ 
ment. 
While the owner and archi¬ 
tect agree that, were the prob¬ 
lem to be solved anew, im¬ 
provements could be made, 
there yet is about this off¬ 
spring of the Elizabethan 
farmhouse an atmosphere that 
charms and that can be di¬ 
rectly traced to the owner’s 
enthusiastic efforts to give 
the building a setting both 
appropriate and harmonious, 
and that will enhance what 
merit the architecture itself 
may have. It is only by 
this unceasing personal 
care in every detail, this indefinitely continued home-making, 
that a country home of distinction can be produced,—and, 
incidentally, that is just where all the keenest pleasure in home- 
building comes in. 
In the billiard room the frieze, painted by a well known portrait painter, 
represents the games, starting at the left with chess 
The 4 -carved stone fireplace, beamed and molded plaster ce ilin g, and the 
dark oak wainscoting make a consistent English dining-room 
