HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1909 
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interesting for a steady~diet as 
did the view out upon the ever- 
changing Sound. So the living- 
room was put at the back of the 
house and the kitchen brought to 
the front. Even then the house 
did not seem topsy-turvy, for the 
main path to the entrance led 
naturally up from the corner of 
the plot and around to the en¬ 
trance porch on the side, which 
happened also to front on the 
other street. 
A fairly large porch is to be 
found on the north front, about 
thirteen by fifteen feet in size, and 
marked by massive stone piers 
at the four corners! To the left, 
as one faces the front door, is 
the living portion of the house — 
a large room and its adjoining 
view porch, which one reaches 
through French windows in the 
east side of the former. A glance 
at the floor plan will show that the 
view porch may be reached only 
through the living-room, so that 
its privacy is assured. And that 
it differs from the ordinary run 
of porches is evident in several 
of the photographs of the exte¬ 
rior, in which it will be seen that 
the supporting members are not 
the customary piers or walls, but sturdy brackets of dark 
brown stained wood, braced against the stonework of the 
main structure below. 
On the other side of the central hall lies the dining-room, 
fifteen and a half by fifteen feet in size and with a distinctive 
character all its own. A white painted wainscoting extends 
around the room, bearing on its top a plate-rail. Above this, 
and reaching to the picture molding, the walls are covered with a 
Japanese paper in dull gold and 
green, which colors are repeated 
in the stencil pattern that is ap¬ 
plied to the upper square panels 
of the white wainscoting. The 
furniture is of mahogany, con¬ 
trasting well with the white wood¬ 
work. The table light is rather 
unusual; instead of a dome light 
hanging low over the table, this 
one consists of a shallow dish¬ 
like member of opalescent glass, 
supported by chains, and diffusing 
the light from the electric lamps 
immediately above it. The effect 
is an evenly lighted room, with 
a soft rosy glow over the table 
itself. The small bronze button 
on the bottom of the fixture may 
be removed to uncover a socket 
for a drop-light connection when 
one is desired. 
Immediately back of the din¬ 
ing-room lies the butler’s pantry 
and the kitchen. The first floor 
plan shows how well and how 
generously the latter has been 
equipped with dressers, pot-closet, 
ice-box compartment and win¬ 
dows. An economical feature of 
the plan is the arrangement by 
which but one chimney is needed, 
providing flues for the hot-water 
heater, a laundry stove in the basement, the kitchen range 
and the big fireplace in the living-room. 
Throughout the first floor, and in the hall upstairs as well, the 
woodwork is of cypress, stained a soft brown without the least 
gloss. The bedrooms and baths, of course, are in white. 
On the second floor there are four bedrooms and two baths, 
and, as is shown by the plan, the provision for closet room has 
been complete. There really is more available room of this kind 
From the porch the view is down over the Sound, with Long 
Island just visible in the distance 
On the first floor the kitchen range and living-room fireplace use the same chimney. A maid’s room and storage rooms are in the attic 
