House and Garden 
VoL. XIV AUGUST, 1908 No. 2 
A Summer Home at Sewickley, Pa. 
By H. M. PHELPS 
H andsome and imposing in its well-propor¬ 
tioned English lines but not assertive or 
ostentatious is the summer home of Mrs. 
Benjamin Franklin Jones, widow of the late founder 
and senior member of the great Jones & Laughlin 
Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This 
excellent example of English domestic architecture 
adorns one of the highest points of Sewickley Heights, 
the seat of the Tuxedo Colony of the steel metropolis, 
sixteen miles from the business center of tbe city, on 
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. 
Sewickley borough, lying just below this colony of 
magnificent country estates, is one of the most fash¬ 
ionable, high-class suburbs of Pittsburgh, and this 
is saying much, for no other large city in the United 
States has a greater number of really fine and beauti¬ 
ful residences, although it is true that single homes in 
New York City cost eight or ten times as much as any 
to be found in Pittsburgh. 
The house stands in the midst of spacious grounds 
covering almost fifty acres, the site being most 
happily chosen as it is of a commanding nature and 
affords a superb panoramic view of the rolling, green 
hills of the Heights for miles around. While its situa¬ 
tion is high it is at the same time amply screened from 
the public road by a fine, old hemlock hedge and 
the grounds thus have that air of privacy which is 
the chief charm of the English country place. The 
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