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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
225 
Beach, Florida, and erected there as a winter home for Mr. 
Israel Putnam. With all its annexes the building has twenty- 
seven rooms and four baths. It has a frontage of 200 feet and 
a depth of half that, and as the plan shows, it has a court in 
the center fifty feet square, which is filled with palms and orange 
trees. 
The site chosen is on the east bank of the Halifax River, in 
a grove of palmettos, magnolias, orange, lemon and persimmon 
trees, with here and there a stately water oak, draped with the 
native hanging moss. An ideal spot for a bungalow, surely. 
The approach is from the private dock on the shore and leads 
up by an easy slope with occasional steps through a long Japan¬ 
ese pergola to the tile-paved terrace across the front of the build¬ 
ing. This terrace is about eighty feet long and fifteen feet wide, 
sufficiently well shaded by the trees to be comfortable in the 
Southern winter sunshine. 
Inside the bungalow there is a variety of treatment in color 
and materials. The living-room, dining-room and study are fin¬ 
ished in two shades of ivory, with doors enameled emerald green. 
Here the walls are wainscoted to a height of four feet, above 
which there are panels filled with Japanese grass cloth extend¬ 
ing to the ceiling. Between the ceiling beams are panels of 
Japanese pebbled leather in light shades of gold. Sideboard, 
The Putnam bungalow at Ormond Beach is built with yellow pine 
structural members and asbestos cement walls between 
bookcases and seats are built in, giving a comfortable informal 
efifect in keeping with the character of the building. 
The sun-parlor, which is used as the main entrance, has a 
red tiled floor and apple-green walls above a five-feet wainscot 
of gray asbestos cement. The ceiling is a pebbled light carnel- 
ian red and gold. For the four bathroms and the master’s suite 
white enamel has been used as a wood finish, with the doors of 
mahogany. In the south wing the bedrooms are stained with 
Japanese colors and hung with grass cloth. 
Passing from the court garden under the shelter of a pergola, 
one descends picturesque stone steps leading into the Japanese 
garden. The latter was readily constructed with the wealth of 
palms, palmettos, ferns, orange trees and kumquats that cover 
numerous small islands in a space of about an acre. A more 
readily available place for carrying out a Japanese garden it 
would be difficult to imagine. The walks were laid out with 
stones of a shell rock formation — about the only stone to be 
found in Florida — in the usual random manner, leaving space 
between for grass and ferns. 
The difiference in grade between the palm court and the 
extreme rear is about ten feet, giving opportunity to create four 
lakes at different levels. Water was obtained from a driven well 
in such abundance that fifteen thousand gallons daily passes over 
the little Japanese cascades, under quaint little bridges, around 
stepping stones and stone lanterns until it finally finds its way 
through a winding brook into the Halifax River. 
Two views of the porch and living-room of the house illustrated on the opposite page. Wide sliding glazed doors permit the two to be used 
as one throughout the summer months 
