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House & Garden 
Tebbs 
TROPICS — NORTH 
Just about this lime of year, when good folks seek the warmer 
temperature and luxurious growth of the tropics, it is interest¬ 
ing to run across this tropic glimpse in Scarsdale, north 
of New York. The house is built in the Italian style, of light, 
pinkish gray stucco, with a variegated slate roof. Before it 
runs a brick terrace with brick steps leading down to the 
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garden path and driveway. Over one end of the terrace is a 
natural cedar lattice roof for vines. The combination of the 
architecture and the growth and the sunlight makes a pleasant 
reminder, in these wintry days, of the tropics far south of 
New York. The house is the home of Alfred J. Stern, Esq. 
Randolph II. Almiroty was the architect 
