Inniscara House 
THE HOUSE FROM THE GARDEN 
lot, and the balancing of the composition by 
the handball court and stable in the rear are 
the general conditions which have made for 
success. 
When to these are added the pleasingly 
unusual exterior of the house, the gaiety of 
the flower garden, the quiet expanse of lawn 
across “the orchard,” and the background 
afforded by the handball court and the stable, 
with their connecting pergola, one hardly real¬ 
izes that all this has been attained within the 
limits of a lot which is only one hundred and 
seventy feet wide and five hundred feet long. 
The plan of the house itself is simple but 
sufficient. It shows no peculiarities which 
mark it as an actor’s summer home, unless it 
be the breadthof view which abhors complexity. 
It is a plan which distinctly adapts itself to 
an out-of-door life and an avoidance of house¬ 
hold cares. 
1 he original intention of enclosing the 
frame of the house in a four-sided brick shell 
was wisely abandoned, and the homely, old- 
fashioned split shingle forms the covering for 
walls and roof. 
The exterior of the house is finished in 
natural woods on the first floor and painted 
woodwork on the second. The cost of the 
house was ten thousand dollars; of the lot and 
its adjuncts, about eight thousand additional. 
A CORNER OF THE PORCH 
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