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July, 1915 
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than of beautiful line and perfectly right construction. He wanted 
artistic treatment; and the artistic, like Parisian simplicity in 
women’s dress, is usually expensive. It takes time and money 
to search innumerable old walls and even distant mountain slopes, 
for just the right shapes of weathered, lichened stone; it is almost 
as costly to employ the sort of workmen who will lay these stones 
as they should be laid to 
obtain the best effect. 
But no appreciative per¬ 
son, seeing the result, has 
doubted for a moment 
that it was money well 
spent. 
The house, set on the 
crown of a New Hamp¬ 
shire hill, faces south and 
the view. The main por¬ 
tion is a simple rectangle, 
fiftv by thirty feet, from 
which the service wing 
stretches at an angle. It 
is at their juncture that 
one of the great chimneys 
—perhaps the largest, cer¬ 
tainly the most unique in 
treatment — towers up to 
face the approach. 
Always the tying-in of 
a great mass of masonry 
to a frame house is diffi¬ 
cult to accomplish effec¬ 
tively. In the present in¬ 
stance this was admirably 
accomplished by the 
happy expedient of carrying the stone clear to the corner of 
the building, making the entire east end of the first story, includ¬ 
ing a casement window, of stone. 
The result was charming. From within, the deep, embrasured 
window, with its rough stone arch, and sill made of a single slab 
of weathered granite, has an interestingly mediaeval effect — an 
effect greatly heightened by the presence of an old Gothic choir 
stall, and the carved panel hanging at 
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necessity, a corner one; but the window and the remaining stone¬ 
work provide a balancing effect which entirely prevents the lop¬ 
sided appearance made by so many corner fireplaces. The whole 
“stone end" is, in fact, extremely happy, being unusual and pic¬ 
turesque, without a touch of the bizarre. It gives an impression 
of natural growth, almost of a necessity. Viewed from close at 
hand or from the further 
extremity of the great 
room it is equally charm¬ 
ing. 
Perhaps it is not quite 
accurate to describe the 
main portion of the lower 
floor as a single room. 
Strictly speaking, the 
large rectangle is undi¬ 
vided by actual partitions, 
save for the pantrv and a 
smallish den back of the 
stairs. But the placing of 
the massive square 
columns and pilasters of 
North Carolina pine, and 
U.e ingenious variation of 
the ceiling beams, give a 
distinct effect of hall, 
living-room and dining¬ 
room without detracting 
in the least from the airy 
spaciousness desirable in 
every summer house. 
These beams, and to an 
even greater degree the 
The entire east end of the house is stone, hence the deep embrasured casement window, with 
its interesting mediaeval effect made by the old Gothic choir stall and the carved panel 
wall sheathing, form an¬ 
other attractive and unusual feature of this unusual house. It 
is all of pine, not stained or varnished, but simply merely oiled 
after the fashion of the simple Colonial paneling, which, dark¬ 
ened a little and worn by time and use to an exquisite satiny 
softness, survives here and there in old mansions to excite our 
admiration and perhaps our envy. The quaint, vet simple, beading 
that gives the sheathing its distinction and redeems it from the 
commonplace, was copied from the wall 
This carries the glimpse of the living-room farther 
along, showing the massiveness of the masonry and 
the airy spaciousness of the beamed ceiling 
And this brings us to the living-room fireplace, a 
cavernous affair capable of holding immense logs. 
There is genuine Colonial atmosphere in this room 
Another of the bedroom fireplaces—set in a corner 
and with a raised brick hearth—a comfortable and 
convenient adjunct for toasting one’s toes 
