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House & Garden 
“Three Barns”, at Silvermine, Connecti¬ 
cut, the studio home of Mr. and Mrs. 
John Kenneth Byard, was ingeniously 
contrived from three old barns, in a 
manner both picturesque and habitable. 
The massive chimney of local fieldstone 
connects two of the barn structures, and 
aids the architectural composition of 
the group. John V. Van Pelt was archi¬ 
tect of the alterations 
A glimpse through one of the barnyard 
gates. in the stone wall surrounding the 
studio grounds. The great stone chimney 
rising behind the simple lines of the barn 
structure, creates a picture of domesticity 
achieved without any architectural effort 
One of the charms that make “Three 
Barns” consistently picturesque is the old 
wooden barnyard gate opening from the 
road to the forecourt. White lattices 
against the red siding add incident, and 
will aid climbing vines to soften the walls 
