In addition to the rooms shown on the first and second story plans the third story affords four more bedrooms, a bath and a store-room 
is the lack of a porch in the ordinary sense of the word. In 
its place there is the Porch Entry at the front of the hall, 
reached by two short flights of side steps with wide stoops. 
Its wide opening in front, 
capable of being closed up with 
blinds, provides at will either 
a sitting-porch or a vestibule. 
In addition the side entrance 
to the living-room, with its 
quaint projecting shelter from 
the Germantown hood, pro¬ 
vides another means of egress 
to the garden. 
There are parquetry floors 
laid in a special design 
throughout the first and sec¬ 
ond stories excepting in the 
kitchen, where a maple floor 
serves the purpose better, and 
in the bathrooms where tile 
is used. On the first story 
the doors are of mahogany 
with crystal knobs, excepting 
in the service portion, where 
white pine is used, painted 
white. Upstairs the white 
painted woodwork is in evi¬ 
dence throughout, including 
wainscoting in all the princi¬ 
pal rooms. Most of the rooms 
are papered from chair-rail 
to the wooden cornices, and 
the ceilings show white 
plaster. The Porch Entry 
also has a plastered ceiling, 
this time with an interesting 
texture and a tinge of gray. 
The oval dining-room is 
another point of interest, 
made more attractive by rea¬ 
son of its fireplace at one end and its two built-in china 
closets flanking the doorway at the other. And speak¬ 
ing of fireplaces, the Bishop house has a generous supply of 
them—in hall, in living- 
room, and in the owner’s 
bedroom, besides the one 
that lends cheer to those at 
table. 
Two bathrooms appear in 
the second story plan, one a 
private one for the owner, 
and opening only from his 
bedchamber, the other open¬ 
ing from the hall. 
The house is heated by an 
improved warm-air system 
that provides about double 
the usual quantity of warmed 
air at a temperature low 
enough to insure its being 
pleasantly wholesome. 
There can hardly be said to 
be a "front” and a "back” of 
the Bishop house, for the 
back has none of the un¬ 
pleasant and unsightly fea¬ 
tures that are commonly ex¬ 
pected. Here the service 
entrance is located unobtru¬ 
sively at one corner and the 
main portion of the rear is 
scarcely less attractive than 
the front. It is said that 
there lives a man in Norwalk 
who has been so fascinated 
with the rear elevation of the 
house that he can claim but 
scant acquaintance with the 
building from other points of 
view. 
White painted woodwork, with wainscoting and mahogany doors, 
preserve the Colonial atmosphere of the interior 
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