“ Kate’s Hall 
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and these the best,—is girt with trees, and 
distance lends its proverbial enchantment to 
the views of neighbors. 
Following the slope of the hill is a slight 
ridge which the architect was quick to per¬ 
ceive and mould his design thereto. Parallel 
to the vale he has set the main body of his 
house and along the summit of the ridge the 
main cross wing. Furthermore he has brought 
this wing well out upon the western terrace 
and has put under its roof six third-storey 
rooms, thus giving a height the wing well 
bears by virtue of the ample base the land 
provides. From across the vale this dispo¬ 
sition of the house can best be seen, and the 
contour of its site measured by means of the 
long terrace stretching across the living front. 
The proportions of the house are suitably 
low, for it has the good fortune of being for 
the most part but two-storeyed. I'he pro¬ 
jecting wings, however, give the needed ver¬ 
tical lines at each end, while piquancy of 
outline has been obtained by lifting the heads 
of the second-storey windows above the line 
of the cornice. The walls are of brick, the 
trimmings of Indiana limestone, and the roof 
is of green slate. The terrace walls are 
rough at their base, where semi-wild planting 
is supported; and above they are balustraded 
by an ingenious arrangement of terra cotta 
tiles cut into short lengths and laid one above 
the other. On the northeast, next to the 
forecourt carved out of the hillside, are the 
vestibule and the kitchens, a scheme serving 
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