House and Garden 
low book-shelves, except where the fireplace 
or panels filled with wood or mirrors empha¬ 
size the French origin of the design. 
On the second floor a gallery, running 
around three sides of the “great hall,” 
gives access to seven units of space which 
are divided into eleven rooms. In the third 
floor are four single bedrooms for servants. 
The development of the grounds at 
“ Kate’s Hall” h as now commenced. 
lead to a belvedere in the midst of a garden 
at the margin of the wood. A rustic per¬ 
gola is to follow the edge of the trees along 
the rim of the vale and is to give easy 
access to the greenhouses and palm houses; 
while clear across the natural hollow a lit¬ 
tle temple will be seen from the house 
reflecting itself in the waters of a future 
willow pond. 
In this way the fifteen acres contained in 
THE HOUSE FROM THE SOUTH 
Messrs. Olmsted Brothers have completed 
studies for it and the beginning made has 
been under the intelligent management of 
Mr. Percival Gallagher. Temporary plant¬ 
ing already clothes the hill above the house 
and protects also the slow-growing trees 
and shrubs. Here the orchard is to be; and 
to the northwest of the house a path is to 
the property have been made much of in 
order to fulfill all the requirements of a 
semi-rural residence. With open country 
for the site and city building laws affecting 
the construction of the house, it was rather 
a paradoxical situation from which the archi¬ 
tect and the landscape gardener have brought 
forth a very agreeable result. 
