Washington—A Residential City 
WASHINGTONIANS USE PARKINGS INSTEAD OF PRIVATE GARDENS 
character of homes now demanded and building, that 
in course of completion for Assistant Secretary ol 
State Robert Bacon maybe instanced. The house is 
Colonial and simple in design, but much care has been 
given to the interior arrangement and to its decorations. 
The exterior is of dark red brick and Indiana lime¬ 
stone. Over the door is a porch supported by large 
wooden columns. The house is five stories and has a 
frontage of sixty-nine feet and a depth ot forty-two 
feet. On the first floor is a large reception hall, which 
will be finished in wood. To the right of the hall is a 
library, the dimensions of which are twenty-five by 
forty feet. Book shelves will 
entirely cover the walls of the 
library. The other rooms on the 
first floor are a kitchen, servants’ 
hall, and service rooms. 
A broad staircase leads from 
the first floor to the second and is 
one of the handsomest features 
of the house. It is of carved 
English oak. A conservatory, 
in which there is place for a large 
fountain, will open from the cen¬ 
tral hall on the second floor. A 
large salon finished in Louis 
XVI. style will be directly over 
the library. On the opposite 
side of the house will be the din¬ 
ing-room, thirty feet long by 
twenty-five feet wide. The 
walls will be of paneled oak and 
the ceiling will be finished after 
the English geometrical style, 
and will he ivory in color. A 
large carved stone fireplace will 
add to the elegance of this room. 
The third floor will be given 
over to sleeping apartments, 
dressing-rooms, baths, and 
closets. On the fourth floor 
there will he two bed chambers, 
and seven servants’ rooms, d'he 
fifth floor will he devoted to ser¬ 
vants’ rooms and storage space. 
Large numbers of handsome 
homes, building with a view of 
social functions, as is the Bacon 
residence, are being built. One 
of the latest to the long list is 
that of Perry Belmont, of New 
York, the foundations of which 
have just been completed. It is 
to he in the style of Louis XIV. 
and will cost a half-million dol¬ 
lars. A unique arrangement is 
that the private part of the house 
will be on the first floor, with rooms for entertaining 
above. The architecture of the building is made 
impressive through the simplicity and dignity of its 
lines. The house will he three stories in height, with 
two stories underground, the basement and sub- 
basement. The kitchen and other service rooms 
will be in the basement and the heating plant in the 
sub-basement, leaving the entire upper part of the 
house for living purposes. The exterior will be 
constructed entirely of Indiana limestone. 
A feature of the house is found in the plan of the 
first floor, which is raised a good distance from the 
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