House and Garden 
THE STABLES 
of the garden to speak the last architectural 
word before the eye is lost in the depths of 
a wildwood beyond. 
The design of the ground is so extremely 
simple that its plan can be read from the 
illustrations. The vista alluded to passes 
across the ends of the wings, and within their 
limits it is a formal walk bordered with 
hedges. Considerate of the pool, it curves 
outward in the center and so completes a 
border of green surrounding the water. Be¬ 
yond the confines of the house, it meets the 
character of the hillside and becomes simply 
a broad turf 
walk,extreme¬ 
ly beautiful 
and imposing, 
and suggest¬ 
ing in minia¬ 
ture the tapis 
verts of Ver¬ 
sailles and 
Compiegne. 
The effect 
of calm digni¬ 
ty is furthered 
by restraint in 
giving over 
areas to flow¬ 
ers. Floral 
color, therefore, merges in effect with that 
of shrubs, with rich green turf and opulent 
hedges of box, brought from Holland. The 
treillage , too, is a green, yet darker, and the 
note of all is a sharp contrast with the se¬ 
verely white exterior of the house. Many 
cedars, fifteen to twenty feet in height, were 
brought from near Boonton, N. J., and suc¬ 
cessfully reestablished on the grounds. 
The character of the structure is that of 
the Louis XVI. style, and it is built of brick, 
stuccoed with cement and finished with a 
brilliant coat of shell-lime and marble dust. 
There is little 
exterior en¬ 
richment, ex¬ 
cept upon the 
center of the 
garden front 
and the first 
impression of 
the interior is 
one of spa¬ 
ciousness, due 
as well to the 
large rotunda, 
open through 
two storeys, as 
to the broad 
reaches of 
THE STABLE COURTYARD 
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