HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1910 
The long sloping roof on the Mianus house has something of the 
quality familiar in the Dutch Colonial work 
There is one difficulty often met; the second-story windows 
under the eaves or cornice are too small. Sometimes, as in the 
house just mentioned, they are high and their sills may be cut 
down ; sometimes they are near the floor and must be raised; a 
section of the cornice might be lifted and the roof up from it 
given a flatter pitch, or the cornice boldly broken and a gable 
built over each window as in the house illustrated in the middle 
■of page 12. It is perhaps the most satisfactory of the several 
solutions, but the house must be long and low to stand it and too 
many gables must not be introduced. In the case cited the center 
•window has been left as it was. 
A farmhouse developed along bungalow lines. The porch posts are 
rough tree-trunks 
The House with the Pine Tree at the edge of the Mianus 
Valley is of this type (see top of page 15), singularly beautiful 
in its architecture and well worth adding to. Another is opposite 
a reach of the Mianus where the river road crosses the stream. 
Like many of these old places, it is not near a station, but with 
a motor car one or two miles is hardly regarded, and the best 
of the old houses are gradually being taken up and converted 
with more or less success. This house is small and plain, but 
one must look far to find a site with such possibilities; sheltered 
from the northwest wind by gently sloping farm land, its lawn 
extends to the river edge, an invitation for someone to try his 
A nearer view of the house shown in the heading on page n. The house is quite small but there is always the opportunity to add new wings 
in conformity with the old work 
