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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1910 
The hall extends through the centre of the house and opens upon a 
small back porch from which a path bordered with old-fashioned 
flowers leads down into the garden 
The simple and dignified detail of St. John’s Chapel on Varick Street, 
New York, has been preserved to future generations in the main 
staircase 
interior you will find an arrangement of paneling designed by 
that same great-grandfather, Daniel Hoadley—one link in the 
chain that hinds the new work to that which has gone before. 
There are other 
hints, too, not so 
strongly personal, 
perhaps, hut bridging 
■over in a way the lean 
years in American 
.architecture — a pe¬ 
riod that has been 
called the “Architec¬ 
tural Reign of Ter¬ 
ror.” Take the main 
stairway, for in¬ 
stance. When Mr. 
Hoadley was work¬ 
ing out his plans, the 
rumor spread that 
■old St. John’s on Va¬ 
rick Street was to he 
torn dowfi to make 
way for a modern 
building. The storm 
of protest that was 
raised saved the old 
landmark for the 
time, but in the mean¬ 
while the stairway 
leading to the gallery 
was carefully copied in its simple and dignified detail, and 
adapted for the Hoadley home. 
All of the mantels in the house are old ones. The one over 
the dining-room fire¬ 
place Mr. Hoadley 
discovered in a Dan¬ 
bury woodshed some 
three years before he 
was ready to build. 
Those in the owner’s 
bedroom and nursery 
were picked up in the 
tortuous mazes of a 
house-wrecking com¬ 
pany’s yard on the 
East Side. The one 
in the living - room 
came from an old 
Maryland homestead. 
In the New Eng¬ 
land prototype the 
porch was but a shel¬ 
ter for the front 
door, its barrel ceil¬ 
ing plastered in the 
best examples. An 
old house at Farm¬ 
ington, Conn., fur¬ 
nished the inspiration 
for the modern ex- 
From the rear the house is as attractive as from the front, particularly in the sloping 
roof of the kitchen wing 
