House and Garden 
THE ENTRANCE TO THE STABLES FROM THE FORECOURT 
roughcast of shell lime and marble dust. 
This composition has been proved enduring 
and has the tendency to become a fine white 
ivory tone with the action of weather and 
time. The roof of the house provides a sharp 
contrast to this in being covered with blue 
black Pennsylvania slates, and the walls sur¬ 
rounding the property are capped with red tiles. 
In the center of the second floor of the 
house is a large hall lighted from the roof 
and surrounded by the owner’s suite of rooms 
and also by three guest rooms. From all 
the windows, except those on the north, 
superb views of the sea can be had through 
wide arcs of vision. 
The stretch of land between the house 
and Bellevue Avenue has been designed 
as an integral part of the scheme, which ties 
together every portion of the property. Axes 
of rooms and vistas of the house become the 
center-lines of the outdoor spaces, all of 
which are arranged with a clear sense of 
what the French term l' ceil du plan , a pro¬ 
portion and balance of parts which should be 
apparent in every good architectural scheme. 
Two terraces lead from the salon to the 
level of the ground, and beyond a beech and 
an oak tree lies a fountain basin, forty feet in 
diameter, marking the center of a sunken 
space whose four parterres correspond to the 
width of the building. These parterres are 
bordered with flowers, and four large box 
bushes grow in their corners. The hedges 
are of Californian privet and the walks are of 
turf. High masses of shrubs are to be 
reared on each side of the sunken garden 
and in the corners of the grounds nearest to 
Bellevue Avenue are clumps of such tall 
trees as the pine, spruce, taxodium, liquidam- 
bar and the plane. Between these groves 
is a dense plantation of Japanese and Amer¬ 
ican pyramidal conifers, providing a back¬ 
ground to the garden when seen from the 
house, and in front of which it is likely 
that statuary will be placed. Outside this 
thicket, the surrounding wall of the grounds 
is replaced for a distance by an iron fence, 
more hospitable to the eye, and giving to 
the public highway a view of the ornamental 
growths within. 
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