September, 1909 
House and Garden 
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front was made by adding to the 
west end and erecting a portico of 
Corinthian columns. This faces 
the road, while the east front 
overlooks the town and Lake 
Ontario. All the windows were 
altered to conform to the Georg¬ 
ian style, as were all the other 
details of the exterior—cornice, 
dormer windows, casement win¬ 
dows and new doors being added. 
While the exterior of the house is 
very attractive and in good style, 
the interior, the magnificent view 
and situation and the grounds are 
what make “Hillcrest” a very 
beautiful country home. 
The situation is unique and the 
available view can be imagined 
when one pictures the possibility 
of sitting in the middle of the 
drawing-room on a clear day and 
seeing over the blue waters of 
Lake Ontario for thirty miles. 
From the verandas a prospect 
can be had of many miles over 
town, rolling country and far dis¬ 
tant wooded hills, as well as the 
sight of the ever beautiful lake. 
The fine oaks and rolling hilly 
land give the grounds an effect of substantial permanence. 
The natural beauties have been augmented by walks and 
drives, Italian gardens, tennis courts, Georgian summer¬ 
house and bridge, and so on. 
Entering the east door one 
finds the dining-room to the left 
of the hall and the drawing-room 
to the right. The former is 27 
feet in length and 16^ feet in 
width. The large door from the 
hall contains a good stationary 
Colonial transom, which, with the 
chair-rail, door leading to the en¬ 
closed veranda, the mantelpiece 
and plaster cornice, are the archi¬ 
tectural decorations of the room. 
In this room, as well as the other 
rooms, the mantels are those of 
wood, while, with the exception 
of the library, the woodwork 
throughout the house is painted 
white. The wall paper of the 
dining-room is ivory white with 
all the patterns in green; it was 
copied from that in an old house 
in North Carolina. 
So many houses are spoilt by 
the architectural features and the 
fact that the furniture is not in 
harmony. Such is not the case 
at .“Hillcrest,” where there exists 
a fine collection of antique fur- 
The library is the only room with dark woodwork, and the furniture is largely of 17th century 
English oak 
niture, ninety per cent, of which are good American speci¬ 
mens of the the 18th century; this collection has been 
described in House and Garden, and two pages illustrating 
The octagonal_Yellow Room, where everything is Colonial, even to the clasps that hold back the curtains 
