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House & Garden 
Gillies 
THE COUNTRY HOUSE AND ITS SITE 
Upon the site depeyids much of the success of a 
country house. The house itself may be ati 
achievement in design and yet fail because it is 
unsuited to the site. Or, the site may be qxiite re¬ 
markable and be spoiled when the house is placed 
upon it. In some instances the house must even 
be subordinated to the site. That was the suc¬ 
cessful solution in the placing of this country 
house, the residence of Mrs. Lizbeth Ledyard at 
Stockbridge, Mass. It is protected from the north 
by a hill and overlooks the Housatonic Valley. 
The public road winds over this hill, but the 
house is so situated as to assure privacy. From 
the other side it commands the farther reaches 
of the valley. Being placed in this position, its 
architectural merit is enhanced by the very 
fact that it is subordinated to the site. The 
architect of the house was Harx-ie T. Lindeberg 
