May, 1923 
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TRANSPLANTED 
ARCHITECTURE 
The entrance front presents a 
somewhat forbidding appear¬ 
ance, with its blank spaces 
balancing windows on the 
right, and its stiff, acute gable 
above the entrance. The gar¬ 
den front has a much better 
sense of design and balance 
The provision for a bedroom 
fireplace offers a suggestion 
in planning a feature many 
of us would appreciate, while 
the remainder of the second 
floor plan seems somewhat 
unorganized and peculiar. 
Basil Oliver was the architect 
The garden front of this En¬ 
glish country house is pleas¬ 
antly broken by the dining 
room bay, with its tall French 
doors and iron rail. The 
effect is of a small French 
country house transplanted to 
a friendly site on English soil 
The dining room seems as 
though it must be the most 
attractive part of the first 
floor plan. The drawing 
room suggests distinct for¬ 
mality, with its twin French 
doors arid the curious device 
of the windowless front wall 
