House and Garden 
stream winds along one entire side of the 
property, adding extreme picturesqueness 
and furnishing an abundant supply of the 
purest water, tor its volume is reenforced 
by numerous springs. 
The house, which takes the place of one 
destroyed by fire about a year ago, is of ex¬ 
treme simplicity of outline and exterior fin¬ 
ish, suggesting the comfortable English 
homes which are the delight of strangers 
visiting the older country, but which are so 
the prototype has been avoided,and the house 
made to minister to the outdoor life which 
flows about the modern American home. 
The planting of the place has been done 
with a view, so far as possible, of assisting 
Nature, rather than taking its place with 
artificial effects, the only bit of formal plant¬ 
ing being the garden. This, however, is filled 
entirely with hardy shrubs and flowering 
plants, and is set behind the house so as not 
to intrude upon the general scheme of the 
rarely seen in their integrity here, too often 
from the owners’ fear of not appearing suffi¬ 
ciently individual and original if omitting 
from the embellishment of the outside of 
their dwellings evidences of their wealth 
and bad taste. “ Renemede ” house has 
an impressive external vigor, suggesting 
the best domestic architecture in the north 
of Britain; yet by virtue of the generous num¬ 
ber of windows here, the balcony and the piaz¬ 
za extended by a pergola, a sombreness of 
main landscape effects. By this means the 
face of nature seen from the house is en¬ 
riched rather than changed. 
d'he place, in short, is such a one as a 
lover of Nature would choose and delight 
in, and where an architect would find inspira¬ 
tion for the chateaux, grand villas and the 
like, which he may never be fortunate enough 
to build or to occupy, but may take untold 
pleasure in picturing in his mind’s eye upon 
the hills about him. 
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