House and Garden 
Vol. X 
November, 1906 
No. 5 
“FAIR ACRES” 
THE RESIDENCE OE J. W. PEPPER, ESQ., JENKINTOWN, PA. 
Wilson Eyre, Architect 
T IKE all of Mr. Wilson Eyre’s designs, the house 
at “Eairacres” owes its peculiar charm to the 
fact that it embodies the solution of a very definite 
problem. In this case, the conditions of the problem 
which arise out of the peculiar circumstances of the 
time and place, are somewhat unusual. 
The original house at “Eairacres” was built 
about twenty-two years ago, and some eight years 
later Mr. Eyre was called upon to design the sunken 
garden. In 1904, following the continued develop¬ 
ment of the place, the old house was torn down and 
the new one begun. The existing garden fixed 
very definitely certain lines or axes to which it 
was necessary that the design of the new house 
Copyright, 1906, hy The John C. Winston Co. 
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