House £sf Garden 
A HOUSE AT WYNNEWOOD, 
PENN A. 
DESIGNED BY D. KNICKERBACKER BOYD, 
ARCHITECT. 
FIRST glimpse of this house is through 
a long and shady highway, once a private 
lane. Though its lines have not yet been 
softened by age, it seems already to have 
been built tor a vicar or a country gentle¬ 
man of the early English times. Upon 
closer approach, the archway over the 
drive becomes an inviting portal. One 
of an imaginative mind looks beyond for 
a quaint court or lane, with well kept 
hedgerows, little gates and trailing vines, 
between rows ot rambling cottages. The 
cottages are not here, but the hedges and 
shrubbery have been started. T he arch¬ 
way forms a porte cochere without making 
an unsightly projection from the house. 
'There is plenty of outdoor living space at 
the other end, but even here, the porch does 
not obtrude itself, so adroitly is it abutted 
to the house. Visitors on foot enter the hall 
by a front door from the terrace, and those 
who drive alight in the sheltering archway, 
and are ushered through a vestibule into an 
entrance hall—the same into which the front 
door opens. To either entrance, the 
attendant has but a few steps to take from 
the pantry. The effect from this hallway 
through the passage to the main hall and 
stairs beyond, is most attractive; and, by 
means of its woodwork and quaint windows 
on each side, is in close touch with the 
character of the exterior. This planning 
also assures privacy to the family, who 
may be oblivious to those entering the 
house until they are announced. Once 
within the inner precincts of the home, the 
cozy hall, its stairway and mantel, become a 
middle feature in a vista from the dining 
room to a raised fire-place in an ingle-nook 
across the living-room. Containing, as 
this building does, but two stories intended 
for occupancy, the entire space left in the 
roof-peaks becomes a most efficient barrier 
for the heat of American summers. A 
sweep of roof, interrupted only by the 
studied grouping of the gables, is a great 
charm of the composition. 'The timber 
work, while not of constructive necessity, 
has structural significance. It is more than 
a mere pretense, being of heavy timber built 
up solidly on double sheathing, interlined. 
THE FRONT 
A HOUSE AT WYNNEWOOD 
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