HOUSE AND GARDEN 
13 
July. 1915 
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Dignity rather than ornament is the keynote of the dining-room. The woodwork, the leather upholstered chairs and the massive refectory table are of mahogany. 
Italian hanging chandelier is suspended from the beamed ceiling 
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ocean. In the distance is Misery Island, where Mr. Lee has a 
week-end bungalow called “Ye Court of Hearts.” Visible also 
from the villa is the yellow stretch of West Beach, the favorite 
bathing resort of the North Shore colony. 
The house is built of gray stucco with a red tiled roof, befit¬ 
ting the Italian architecture. The roof line is broken by dormers 
and the design displays a happy combination of balance and 
variety. The arrangement of windows, balconies, porches and 
terraces is admirably calculated to offset any tendency toward 
stiff formality. The entrance is at the end, facing the road, 
while the main front commands the view of the sea and over¬ 
looks the garden. At the left of this the wild, rocky hillside 
offers a charming foil to the works of man. 
The feature which at once attracts the attention of the be¬ 
holder is the wealth of planting near the house, and to this is 
due, in large measure, its appearance of being comfortably at 
home. It seems to rise from a bower of greenery, relieved 
here and there by flowering shrubs and the more formal accents 
of bay trees and cedars, while the partly wooded hillside, left 
purposely in its natural state of wildness, forms a charming 
background. 
The house is approached between ornamental gate-posts, up 
a short flight of steps, and along a winding gravel path between 
velvety lawns and masses of shrubbery. The little entrance 
porch, with its tiled roof and white pillars, flanked by hydrangeas 
This view of the living-room indicates its position in the house. The French windows 
open directly on the terrace shown on the next page 
