HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1910 
143 
The living-room extends across one end of the building with French 
windows opening out upon the porch 
The strong blue note of old china contrasts pleasingly in the dining¬ 
room with the unobtrusive brown tapestry paper 
ample, though the seats at the entrance are without precedent. 
They have to a marked degree the atmosphere of the old work. 
The proportions of a Co¬ 
lonial dormer window are 
among the most difficult prob¬ 
lems that confront the de¬ 
signer. While riding on a 
New York elevated train, 
Mr. Hoadley caught a glimpse 
sills was copied from an old Bergen County house, near Engle¬ 
wood, now rapidly falling into decay. 
One common and often 
well founded objection to a 
wooden house is its tendency 
to “settle,” throwing doors 
out of plumb and cracking 
the plaster. Mr. Hoadley’s 
house is very un-Colonial in 
The central hall is broader than 
in most of the old houses— 
eight feet 
of a fine pair on an old house 
on West Broadway, near 
Grand Street. Photograph¬ 
ing these from the top story 
of a house across the street 
was not a difficult matter, 
and the new dormers at En¬ 
glewood will carry forward 
to another generation or two 
the exquisite detail that will 
be found in New York but a 
little while longer. 
Even the wood “trim"' 
around doors and windows 
was based upon old work — 
the detail of all excepting 
that in the living-room being 
taken from an old house at 
Amagansett, L. I. The 
“apron" under the window- 
The entrance porch with it': ^’a"* ' —y->-r ’ upon an ex¬ 
ample on a rarnimg.cn, Conn., homestead 
There is another bath and two 
servants’ rooms on the attic 
floor 
this respect, for instead of 
the usual wooden girder ex¬ 
tending across the cellar ceil¬ 
ing, he has a steel beam. Or¬ 
dinarily the floor joists have 
one end resting on the ma¬ 
sonry wall and the other on a 
wooden girder twelve inches 
deep; one end remains where 
put, but the other sags with 
the shrinking of the girder in 
depth, throwing all the frame¬ 
work of the house out of 
tune. The steel girder costs 
a little more—$10, probably 
—but it does the trick. Mr. 
Hoadley’s house still lacks a 
crack in the plaster or a 
“stuck” door. 
Red cedar clapboards 
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