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New Cottages and Improvements on the 
North Shore 
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Formal Gardens for Warren Estate 
Purchase by George E. Warren of property adjoining his 
estate in Blossom lane gives him about double his former hold- 
ings and improvement of the grounds about the house is under 
way from plans by Arthur A. Shurtleff, the Boston landscape 
architect. A retaining sea wall is a part of the general work 
and a formal garden with fountain basin, pergolas and trellises, 
a tennis court of regulation size, a new driveway with impressive 
gates at the entrance and the laying out of flower beds and 
planting of ornamental shrubbery are all included in the 
plans. The work, carried out by Roberts & Hoare of Manchester, 
is nearing completion. 
Elsewhere at Manchester 
Here and there in Manchester there have been minor im- 
provements for summer cottagers. For Alexander’S. Porter, Jr., 
whose place is on Cobb avenue, Smith’s Point, additional 
chambers and baths have been gained by building up the 
second and third floors and a loggia for a sleeping room in 
the open has been made. The work was carried out by Roberts 
& Hoare of Manchester from plans by Kilham & Hopkins. The 
same architects have enlarged a sitting-room at the residence 
of Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, Smith’s Point, making a spacious bay 
window by which the room will be flooded with sunshine. 
Window seats and a few other improvements make the place 
more comfortable than heretofore. 
For T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., a bungalow is being built 
‘by Roberts & Hoare of Manchester. Not far away, at the 
summer residence of Robert Treat Paine, 2d, an addition has 
been made from plans by Andews, Jaques & Rantoul, who have 
vastly improved the service department and have gained for 
Mr. Paine several new rooms. Roberts & Hoare also carried 
out the plans. 
M A G N O L I A 
Magnolia lacks building activity this season, although work 
is about to begin on a new house for J. Harrington Walker of 
Detroit, Mich., who for some years has been a summer resident 
cf this resort, as the lessee of well-known cottages. It may be 
recalled that he purchased the former Joseph Sargent estate 
cu the shore road, a most picturesque spot for a summer resi- 
denee. A house which was under construction for him was 
destroyed by fire the past mid-winter, and clearing of the debris 
Iss given a fine building site. From plans by Andrews, Jaques 
& Rantoul, architects of Boston. Mr. Walker is to have a 
xotably impressive house. It will be large and Italian in type, 
of conerete construction for all walls, both exterior and interior, 
and for floors and the like, and therefore will be made as 
freproof as possible. The house will be long and rambling, its 
angles practically forming three sides of a forecourt. The 
roof, broken by small dormers, will be of red tiles. Little iron 
balconies jutting out from second-story windows, loggias, ver- 
andas and terraces will make the whole place attractive, al- 
though the treatment of the house itself is along simple lines. 
The first floor will have an entrance and stair hall ex- 
tending way through to’ a spacious sun room overlooking the 
sea and having a vaulted ceiling and tiled floor, the sun room 
to be surrounded by terraces. The living room will be of 
large dimensions and the dining room equally so, while there 
also will be a study and a breakfast room on this floor. All 
have fireplaces. The living room is to open upon a covered 
}iazza having a vaulted roof and tiled floor. The interior 
fnish is to be far from anything elaborate or over-ornamental, 
as it is planned to make the house a suitable setting for use of 
chintzes and like materials and furniture with which these 
stuffs harmonize. 
There will be ample veranda space, in part covered and 
the rest to be left open. At the right of the circular driveway 
which will lead to the main entrance there is to be a regulation 
tennis court and a pergola is to lead from the house toward 
the rocks skirting the water, affording a delightful and well- 
enaded place from which to enjoy ocean views. A grass terrace 
will be placed between the house and the edge of the rocks 
and at the right end of the house a formal flower garden will 
be a feature of the exterior development. 
HAM I. L)jT-0 N.- W E N. HO Yaa 
At Hamilton the changes are fewer this season than in 
some years and those found at the Myopia Hunt Club are 
undoubtedly of the greatest interest. During the past winter 
radical improvement has gone on, with the main entrance to 
the club changed to the north side, a new hall built, two extra 
rooms and other equipment installed, including a new heating 
plant. A new piazza has been added all around the house, 
which corrects the unsymmetrical effect of the old piazzas, and 
a large parking space has been provided for automobiles as — 
well as ample space to reach the clubhouse when several machines 
arrive at the same time. The buildings have all been repainted 
and various other needed, 
bave been made. The driveway by which the club is reached, — 
which heretofore has been on the south side, has been changed 
so that it passes on the north side, between the stables and 
the clubhouse. The space formerly oecupied by the driveway 
and turn-around has been sodded and eventually will become 
a handsome lawn. <A new caddie house has been built, further 
up on the hill from the position of the former one, and this new 
building is completely equipped so that it can amply take care 
of the large number of golfers who play on these links during 
the summer. 
minor repairs, which were much 
All these changes, carried on during the winter 
r‘onths, are now complete so that the members have not suffered 
any discomfort, and on going down this season will find the 
work completely finished and in running order. The changes 
have been carried out by Parker, Thomas. & Rice, the Boston 
architects. 
On the Beverly Farms-Wenham Road 
On the Beverly Farms- Wenham road, the new house for 
William Gordon Means is almost finished and shows an attractive 
place. It is just across the line in Wenham and adjoins the 
estate of Quiney A. Shaw, 2d, in the Preston Place section. The 
house is of the comfortable farmhouse type and has a simple 
porch overlooking a terrace. Mr. Means’s architects, Little & 
Browne, have provided him with an attractive living room of 
good size, a library and spacious dining room on the first floor, 
with a well-planned service part. A new avenue leading to the 
hcuse is a feature of the outdoor development. The house was 
built by J. A. Mayberry of Beverly Farms, 
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No work along the North Shore this season seems of more 
importance than the fine large house just completed for R. T. 
Crane, Jr., of Chicago. It is situated at what long has been 
known as Castle Hill Farm, in Ipswich. Last fall Mr. Crane 
purchased the large estate of the late John Burnham Brown, 
comprising approximately 800 acres and having an ocean front- 
age of nearly five miles as well as a fine frontage on Ipswich 
River, and a part of the property fronts on Fox Creek. It 
includes Cedar Point, a part of Castle Neck Beach and also 
Pine Island. Much of the property is wooded, having been well 
planned and laid out by a landscape architect more than a score 
of years ago, and trees have since grown to fine condition, giving 
Mr. Crane an advantage in his development of the land. The 
property includes Steep Hill, Middle Hill and Castle Hill, with 
