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House b" Garden 
A DOOR OF 
TJic Spanish and Italians practised the excellent 
custom of placing decoration where it was most 
effective. They concentrated it at certain points and 
contrasted it with its surroundings. The flat wall sud¬ 
denly flowered with a richly wrought iron grill. The 
plain surface abruptly broke out into a doorway of ex¬ 
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quisite detail. The same spirit is found in this entrance 
to the home of C. C. Merritt, at Larchmont, N. T. Rough 
walls withsimple window openingsmakeinterestingfa- 
qadcs. A flight of stone stairs expanding at the top to 
a platform gives approach to the door. Then the door 
itself, with its richly carved twisted engaged columns 
