House and Garden 
helped, forming the front portion into a sort of room, 
connecting directly with the living-room by low 
French windows. 
The “possibility” of mosquitoes in a New Jersey 
town suggested screening this space, and the fact 
that the house is set seventy-five feet from the street 
makes it so delightfully secluded that many times 
in the summer lunch is served here, and even the table 
is laid for dinner in the cool of the evening. A 
scheme of the future when carried out, for enclosing 
this space in glass, will give the luxury of a sun 
room. 
The eaves of the house extend eighteen inches 
beyond the walls, the under surface being ceiled 
with matched and beaded North Carolina pine and 
varnished. Under the projecting floor of the studio 
on the north side are set heavy brackets 
stained the same as the shingles, porch posts and 
balustrade, a weathered brown, which combined 
with the stone gray of the stucco, and a light yellow 
gray of the second floor window trim, is the exterior 
color scheme. 
On the first floor, opening from the porch or south 
side, is the living-room, sixteen feet by twenty-four feet 
in dimensions and connecting by a square arched door¬ 
way with the dining-room. A butler’s pantry sepa¬ 
rates the kitchen, out of which leads the large pantry, 
servant’s stairway, cellar and back porch. 
The outer door opens directly into the living-room, 
so arranged that the main stairway leads from the 
front. T his is of Gothic design, with a newel post 
of simple pattern. The casing is built in and 
paneled. Between the uprights on each step are 
narrow openings with Tudor arches. Above the 
landing square balusters are arranged in groups of 
three. But the architectural feature of this room is 
a massive fireplace built in the inner wall. The face 
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