Fairacres ” 
On the second floor, each bedroom is flnished 
in white pine, painted a cream white, and each 
bedroom has an open fireplace. 
This beautiful house illustrates as well as any 
other that could he selected, the charming efl-'ects 
produced by Mr. Eyre, when working with a sym¬ 
pathetic owner. House and garden are in absolute 
harmony, and both are impermeated with that 
captivating air of domesticity which this artist 
has the peculiar faculty of imparting to all of his 
designs, whether large or small. Mr. Eyre seems 
so well to succeed in placing the house in exactly 
the right position upon its site, and in creating a 
home amid beautiful surroundings. 
As the issue of House and Garden, which con¬ 
tains the description of the garden at “Fairacres” 
is entirely out of print -having been destroyed 
in the fire which burnt down the establishment 
of the former publishers of this magazine in 1904— 
the following from that description is reprinted for 
the benefit of our later subscribers. 
The garden is the crowning ornament to the 
place and serves also to tie together into one group 
such minor buildings as the barn and greenhouses. 
Enclosed only by low stone walls, its splendor 
is that of an open plateau without an interruption 
to Its unity or any barrier to a view which may 
comprehend all at a glance. In this expansive¬ 
ness lies the appropriateness of the name of “Fair- 
acres.” It is the most formal garden in the vicinity 
of Philadelphia; and though less monumental, 
perhaps, than others in that region and elsewhere, 
it is equal to any in the richness of its design and 
the effectiveness of its ornamentation and planting. 
Indeed, this garden might easily rival some of 
the Old-World work in years to come, when age 
shall have given “Fairacres” less of a handicap 
in such a comparison. 
