The entrance porch, T 3 X 20 ft., is on the north side of the house, convenient to the corner of the two streets, and marked by massive stone piers. 
than becomes apparent in the plan. In the owner’s bedroom, 
for example, and in the boys’ room as well, small closets have 
been built into the slope of the roof adjoining the dormer windows. 
They are down near the lloor and not very deep, but they do 
make excellent repositories for shoes, hats and such things. 
Then, too, in the larger guest room there is a similar closet built 
into the slope of the roof on the north side—this time about four 
and a half feet high. To those who object to having gambrel 
roofs on their houses because of their necessary accompaniment 
of sloping ceilings in the bedrooms, the possibility of this extra 
closet space may offset the former exaggerated fault. 
On the third lloor, the presence of which is hardly suspected 
from the exterior ap¬ 
pearance of the house, 
there is a commo¬ 
dious maid’s room at 
the west end, lighted 
and ventilated by two 
“eyebrow” windows 
of ample size, and 
equipped also with a 
stationary wash¬ 
basin. In addition 
there are two store¬ 
rooms, each with its 
window, and with 
ceiling boards over 
the rafters in the in¬ 
terest of a more even 
temperature and ab¬ 
sence of dust. 
In the basement, 
which has two en¬ 
trances on the ground 
level—one leading to 
the laundry, heater- 
room and cold-cellar, 
and the other one 
opening under the 
view porch directly 
into a large room that 
is ceiled with stained pine boards, heated with hot-water pipes on 
the ceiling, lighted with wire-screened electric lights, and used as 
the boys’ playroom. In it are gathered all their toys, rods, 
racquets, express wagons and the thousand and one other neces¬ 
sary parts of their equipment, with plenty of shelves, work¬ 
benches and lockers. It is the boys’ own room and it looks 
the part. 
Variety of materials in the exterior of a house can scarcely 
be put forward as an invariable guarantee of beauty or effective¬ 
ness. Indeed, unless the combination is very carefully thought 
out, mere variety usually presupposes an uneasy effect of fussi¬ 
ness and a lack of repose. Roughly laid stonework, dipped 
shingles and stucco, 
for the walls, with 
shingles again, but in 
a different color, for 
the roof, make a va¬ 
riety that sounds 
rather formidable for 
a house of compara¬ 
tively small area, yet 
the Bates house can 
surely not be accused 
of being lacking in 
repose because of it. 
In fact the variety 
seems here to have 
given the y house a 
thoroughly • agreeable 
air of distinction as 
well as an appear¬ 
ance of greater size 
than it really has. 
Mr. Bates takes much 
pride in the stone¬ 
work. Many of the 
pieces he spied out 
along the roadside, 
and brought home 
because of their 
attractive qualities. 
White wainscoting with stencil patterns, and a gold and green Japanese paper above, make 
an effective dining-room 
