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House & Garden 
Gillies 
A WHITE HOUSE IN THE WOODJS 
The walls are clapboard painted yacht white. The blinds are green. And the thatch shingled roof 
fades off into the branches with a green stain that the weather is daily softening. This is a scheme 
of a white house in the woods, the residence of A. W. Lippincott, Esq., at Kensington, Great Neck, 
L. I. Chester A. Patterson was the architect 
