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Rouse & Garden 
THE RESIDENCE of 
ROBERT LOWE BACON, Esq. 
WESTBURY, L. I. 
JOHN RUSSELL POPE, Architect 
Photographs by Gillies 
The house is an Italian type, of whitewashed 
brick with weathered shingle roof. The general 
scheme is of rural simplicity, characteristic both 
of the simpler Italian villas and of our own 
Colonial style. Accordingly the details, while 
executed with a careful eye to their proportion, 
are rather crude, as though the work of a coun¬ 
try carpenter who possessed taste but perhaps 
not all the facilities for work or an academic 
knowledge of precedent 
An intimate entrance is gained by its enclosure 
in a courtyard, an essentially Italian idea. Note 
the effect of the broad wall surface of the serv¬ 
ice wing, broken by little lantern-like windows. 
The feature of the entrance is not the door, but 
the balcony above, which forms an open side 
to one of the guest rooms on the second floor. 
It's overhang is an effective shelter for the 
simple door 
On approaching the- 
forecourt from the west 
this is the view one 
catches through the- 
garden gate in the court 
wall. The fountain is 
flanked with cedars 
and the little pool at 
the grass line is fringed 
with a border of low, 
thick bote. The soft 
weathered effect of the 
whitewash is clearly * 
noticeable here 
This glimpse of the service wing is most rem¬ 
iniscent of Italy on account of the low pitch of 
the roof, the rather blunt cornice, and the 
broad wall surfaces as contrasted with the 
fenestration. This is the entrance to the fore¬ 
court. The road winds through the woods, 
around the side of a hill, finally passing between 
pillars of whitewashed brick to the court itself. 
The fence is whitewashed brick, and the whole 
is surmounted by a white painted coping 
