14 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1915 
Across part of the garden front extends a brick terrace with bay and box and palms 
in tubs, bordered by a stone-capped, vine-covered parapet 
and bay trees in Italian marble tubs, is just the right size to 
offer a friendly welcome. Around the house to the right the 
lawn extends, and to the left, on a lower level, is the garden, 
which can he reached from the entrance porch by two easy 
flights of stone steps. 
Across two-thirds of the garden front extends a brick terrace, 
with bay and box and palms in tubs, bordered by a stone-capped, 
vine-covered parapet, at each end of which is a century plant in 
a marble pot. 
Below this is a shrub- 
massed terrace, and below 
that the formal garden, 
with its stone retaining- 
wall nearly covered by 
■clinging ampelopsis quin- 
quefolia. The garden is 
simply formal, Italian in 
its elements like the 
house, its center of in¬ 
terest being a single-spray 
fountain in a circular 
pool, surrounded by a low 
concrete curb and a ring 
of greensward. The gar¬ 
den lawn is broken here 
and there by sentinel 
cedars, standard roses, 
flowering shrubs, and bits 
of rare Italian marble, 
with seats arranged at 
convenient spots. 
At the left of the brick 
terrace, which is reached 
from the living-room 
At the left of the terrace is a covered veranda enveloping the corner of the house. 
Suitably furnished, it may be enclosed for a sun parlor 
through large French casement windows, is a covered veranda 
enveloping the corner of the house. This may be enclosed as a 
sun parlor, and is suitably furnished. 
The wild hillside at the rear of the house, with its few gnarled 
old trees, is a tangle of wild roses and clover, while nature has 
been assisted by the planting of clematis paniculata and ampe¬ 
lopsis, which partly cover the gray ledges in summer. A short 
distance to the rear are the stables, where Mr. Lee keeps a 
string of thoroughbreds, reached by a gravel walk through a 
smooth-shaven lawn, bor¬ 
dered at intervals by hy¬ 
drangeas and other plants 
in tubs. 
The interior of the 
house, in which the 
Italian note has been pre¬ 
served, is no less success¬ 
ful than the exterior. The 
entrance door opens di¬ 
rectly into an arched hall¬ 
way with mosaic floor 
and paneled woodwork. 
From this hallway oaken 
stairs ascend to the sec¬ 
ond floor. 
To the left of the hall 
is the music room, which 
is Italian Renaissance in 
design and furnishings, 
not far removed from the 
English Georgian style. 
The walls are finished in 
white and gold panels and 
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Befitting Italian architecture, the house is of gray stucco, with a red-tiled roof. The arrange¬ 
ment of windows, balconies, porches and terraces is admirably calculated to offset any 
tendency toward stiff formality 
