House and Garden 
THK VERANDA AND TERRACE 
here, the colors being suhdued enough to take away 
any semblance of loudness or garishness, while at the 
same time there is dignity and strength. And the 
picture in colors formed by the house harmonizes 
beautifully with the frame of the picture, the smooth, 
green sward, the dark emerald of the shrubbery and 
the white of the macadam roadways and paths. Not 
the least pleasing of the features of this picture is the 
finely designed roof, which fits into the balance of 
the architectural scheme perfectly. 
In the design of the interior comfort and conven¬ 
ience are the dominant notes. The house is in the 
form of an L with a large center hall in the front, 
flanked by the library and the dining-room, and in the 
rear of these are the living-room and the billiard- 
room, with the broad, handsome staircase between. 
The L is made up of the service portion of the house, 
the kitchen, two pantries, servants’ dining-room and 
cold-room, equipped with facilities for icing and 
keeping foods fresh. 
This comfort and convenience is allied with ele¬ 
gance and solidity as witness the roomy, spacious 
hall with its splendid, beamed ceiling and paneled 
wainscoting, reminding oneof those magnificent coun¬ 
try homes of the British aristocracy. The finish of the 
hall is entirely of wood, rich, deep-grained oak, and 
with the stately fireplace gives the room the character 
greatest care has been exercised m the laying out of 
the grounds and in the disposition of the gardens in 
connection with the house, so that, while the entire 
place is hut a few years old, it yet possesses the quality 
of the well-established estate which has grown into 
harmony with age. 
The key-note of the house is comfort—and of the 
most solid form. It was designed for such. Its 
owner instinctively disliked anything savoring of 
ostentation or the flaunting of wealth although he was 
one of the richest men in Western Pennsylvania, a 
district famous for multi-millionaires. At the same 
time he was a man of rare good taste and knew how 
to appreciate the artistic and the elegant. Both of 
th ese he desired when he bought the costly site for his 
Sewickley Heights mansion, and it is not too much 
to say that he got them. In the design of the house 
the architects, Messrs Rutan & Russell of Pittsburgh, 
achieved a distinct triumph along the lines of even 
and graceful proportion. There is nothing jarring in 
the picture presented by the stately exterior, the 
splendid porticoes, with their graceful, white columns 
and artistic top-rail contrasting effectively with the 
rich red brick of the first story and the dark, stained, 
half-timber work of the second. 
Color harmony, that almost indispensable requisite 
of a successful, pleasing country house, is to be found 
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