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Rarely beau¬ 
tiful detail is 
found in this 
Colonial door 
in the Pierce- 
Nichols house 
at Salem, 
Mass. 
If You Are Going to Build 
(Continued from page 73) 
Italian door graces the home of Thomas 
Lamont, New York City. It was 
brought from Europe and fitted to the 
scheme of architecture by Walker & 
Gillette. The design is rich without be¬ 
ing ornate, very graceful, with a hint 
of the Italian Gothic in the side carv¬ 
ings. And this door was unquestionably 
made when there was great love of 
beauty, and time to incorporate it into 
architectural perfection. Another carved 
oak doorway, beautifully set in a pan¬ 
eled oak room, is in a house designed 
for Aaron Naumberg. It seems so essen¬ 
tially a part of the noble walls and the 
rich tapestry above that it is hard to 
imagine that it was made centuries ago 
for another race and another environ¬ 
ment. 
Possibly no doors are so widely in 
favor in this country as the classic design, 
the door influenced by the Adam Broth¬ 
ers and the Greek door with its Corin¬ 
thian or Ionic columns, its broken pedi¬ 
ment and molded panels. The former is 
especially typical of the finest of the 
New England houses that bore the 
Adam influence in the architectural treat¬ 
ment of their rooms, and the latter, the 
more ornate and elaborate type of door 
seems to belong equally to Massachu¬ 
setts and Virginia. 
The architects, as we have already 
remarked, insist that the modern house 
frequently carries the beautiful modern 
door. Perhaps they are right, certainly 
there are some fine examples of the indi¬ 
vidually beautiful door in some of our 
newest houses both east and west. We 
are showing an especially beautiful one 
from the home of Mrs. E. O. Holter, 
Mount Kisco, N. Y., a high, narrow 
door with six painted panels on each 
side, designed and executed by Barry 
Faulkner. This door, rich in color and 
curiously beautiful in effect, opens into 
the library. 
Another door in a modern library was 
designed by Taylor & Levi for Edwin S. 
Bayer, New York City. The room is 
made up of book shelves and solid 
panels interestingly bordered with mold¬ 
ing. The doorway is an integral part of 
the entire scheme of the wall finish and 
in a half-circle over the door is a very 
gorgeous sunburst gilt clock that fills the 
space in a most distinguished way. 
(Continued on page 126) 
In developing the open first floor plan, which is found 
in many sections, the arch supplants the door. It is 
effectively employed here to give access to the stairs 
and to repeat the arch motif over the adjoining window 
