“ La Rochelle ” 
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PLAN OF THE HOUSE AND GARDEN 
with a white balustrade and is 
embellished by tubs of blos¬ 
soms and the shapely trees 
that are so appropriate to for¬ 
malism. A path leads around 
to the shore side, by the end 
porch with pots of rhododen¬ 
drons marking the angles of 
the balustrade. 
1 he facade on the grass 
terrace faces east out over the 
bay. The wide verandah with 
brick piers and white wooden 
columns is flush with the grass 
terrace, which with its balus¬ 
trade of brick and stone com¬ 
mands a famous view afforded 
by the blue Frenchman’s Bay, 
ever changing in its aspect, 
that in color and outlook is 
so often likened to the Riviera, 
with the distant view of the 
bluer Gouldsboro Hills. At 
the base of the terrace are shrubberies and 
beyond the land slopes steeply to the water. 
A glazed tea-room is at the northern end of 
the piazza. 
We must point out that the exigencies of 
THE STAIRCASE 
the view—an important point to be consid¬ 
ered in the placing of a country house—- 
demanded that this one be set well to the 
southern end of the lot, the outlooks being 
finest from that point, and this necessarily 
brought the garden at the service end, 
but it has been shielded from the kitchen 
and offices by high vine-covered brick 
walls and shrubbery which only add to 
the picturesqueness and efficiency of the 
whole. 
As for the interior, this same view being 
all-important, the living-room and dining¬ 
room on the first floor and the principal 
bedrooms and boudoirs on the second 
floor, were all placed so as to acquire the 
full benefit of its glories, the less impor¬ 
tant bedrooms and the staircase being per¬ 
mitted to monopolize the entire front of 
the house with its comparatively uninterest¬ 
ing prospect. 
As one enters down stairs one of the 
chief charms of the interior greets one; 
and that is the vista across the wide hall, 
through the triple French window, across 
the verandah and terrace with its open 
balustrade and great potted plants, and 
lastly between two rugged spruce trees 
placed with sure inspiration to frame the 
perspective beyond the water. 
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