HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
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house at Iristhorpe, the Gage estate at Shrewsbury, 
Mass. With the purchase of automobiles and the 
building of a garage, the stable became a super¬ 
numerary among the buildings of the estate, until 
the idea was conceived of remodeling it as a guest 
house. The lower part is still employed for utili¬ 
tarian purposes, the second floor has been completely 
fitted up to serve the needs of hospitality. What 
was once the barn loft has now been divided into 
three bedrooms, a bathroom, and a lounging-room, 
one of the attractions of which is a billiard table. 
Two porches open from this apartment, one of 
which is furnished for outdoor sleeping. The gar¬ 
dener has done his part to make the place attractive. 
Similar arrangements have been made by Mr. 
Thomas Lyman Arnold at his country place on 
Charlestown Bay, R. I. The main dwelling, by the 
way, was evolved from an old cow barn on the 
one-time farm of King Tom, last chief of the Nar- 
ragansetts. When Mr. Arnold first acquired the 
old farm the number of more or less wornout small 
outbuildings upon it offered a real problem. Some 
of them were picturesque in line and setting, but 
in their untouched condition they were a disfigure¬ 
ment. 
Having succeeded so well in making a house out 
of a corn barn, Mr. Arnold turned his attention to 
a good-sized corn-crib standing not far away on a 
little knoll. Sills and timbers proved usable and 
the frame was straightened and trued. The exterior 
was shingled and the interior sheathed with North 
Carolina pine. Windows and doors were put in. 
an addition built on the rear for a kitchenette, 
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The last state of this old shed was better than 
the first. Given windows, bunk beds, a cur¬ 
tain, a few chairs — and there was a guest 
house 
On an estate at Cataumel, Buzzard’s Bay, is this 
wind-mill, converted into a commodious guest house 
The interior of the mill has been left much as it was — the old hand-hewn timbers, boards being still exposed. 
Here, with the simplest of furnishings, has been made a bedroom; the living-room is on the floor below 
