June 2, 1916. 
painted white. ‘The work is nearing a finish under Job 
F. Hurlburt of Beverly Farms. 
Other Changes at the Farms 
0’ the J. A. Lowell Blake place at Beverly Farms, situ- 
ated near the West Manchester line, a new garage has 
been built which is a little out of the usual. It is of two 
stories with hip roof of slate, in graduated widths, in 
English effect, and plastered exterior finish, on terra 
cotta tiles, and takes on an old-time old-stone effect. it 
will accommodate three cars. An outside stairway of 
stone leads to an upper stone-paved piazza opening upon 
several rooms comfortably planned for use by a chauffeur. 
Trellises add to the appearance of the building. The 
work is nearly finished, under the direction of the Holt- 
Fairchild Company, Boston. The little creek which runs 
through this estate has been crossed by a bridge of stone 
and oak timber designed by Boston architects, Richard- 
son, Barott & Richardson, who planned the garage. Con- 
nolly Bros., of Beverly Farms, built the bridge. 
A house on Hale street at Beverly Farms, which 
was purchased last year by Dr. J. H. Lancashire, 
of Manchester, has been remodelled to make it more com- 
fortable and also far more attractive than in the past for 
purposes of summer occupancy. It is situated near the 
residence of Dr. Lancashire’s son-in-law and daughter, 
Mr. and Mrs. E. Laurence White, on Grove street, just 
off of Hale street, whose picturesque house was new lasi 
year. The remodelled house gains new piazzas and sev- 
eral new rooms, with considerable change of arrange- 
ment of the interior. The work has been done by Roberts 
& Hoare, of Manchester. 
Manchester's Changes Are Not Many 
ORK is well along on the foundations of the new 
house to be built at Manchester for William H. Cool- 
idge of Newton Centre, whose summer estate is on Sum- 
mer street, so near the Magnolia line that it seems really 
a part of Magnolia village rather than the Manchester 
colony of residences. It was formerly the old-time Blyn- 
man farm and until Mr. Coolidge bought the place the 
Hotel Blynman stood on the site. Since last summer 
Mr. Coolidge’s former house has been divided into three 
sections and removed to a point farther along Summer 
street, on a section of what was formerly the Kettle Cove 
Golf club grounds, where it has been put together with 
considerable remodelling and improvement. 
The new house for Mr. Coolidge will be imposing in 
appearance, built from plans by Charles M. Baker, 1 
Boston architect, and carried out by E. A. Abbott Com- 
pany of Boston. It will be of stucco exterior finish an 
its long-pitched roof will show various gables. An orna- 
mental main entrance and small-paned windows will be 
features. The first floor will give the owner a small vesti- 
bule leading to a large hall, perhaps forty by twenty or 
more feet in diniensions, with a deep fireplace. ‘The stairs 
have square midway Jandings. <A reception room, a dea, 
a library of spacious size, provided with a deep window 
alcove, a fine fireplace and other features and a large 
dining room and a breakfast room with tiled floor will 
make up the main part of the lower story. There will 
be a fine loggia between the library and dining room and 
at one end of the house will be found a covered piazza. 
The butler’s quarters and general service department 
have been well planned, as have the various rooms for 
servants. The second story will provide three or four 
master’s bedrooms with baths and dressing rooms, a sew- 
ing room, a sitting room of good size, several chambers 
with baths for guests, and the third floor will contain 
several rooms for maids’ use and a storage room, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 11 
Foster Cottage Undergoes Changes 
OR Reginald Foster, the present owner of what form- 
erly was the Bulkeley Wells estate on Coolidge Point 
in Manchester, Roberts & Hoare have added a new din- 
ing room which is of big size, designed by Wilham G. 
Kantoul of Boston. It adds much to the general appear- 
ance of the house. ‘lhe room is about thirty feet long 
and fifteen wide, with oval ends and panelled walls, a 
deep fireplace forming one end, the opposite of which 13 
wholly ot windows. <A new glazed-in piazza with tiled 
floor adjoins and there is a wide terrace reached by steps 
leading from a lobby opening upon the dining room and 
the den, which room is octagonal in shape. 
Lancashire Residence Improved 
UCH has been done to change the interior as well as 
exterior appearance of Dr. J. H. Lancashire’s fine 
summer residence in Manchester, formerly the home of 
the late Charles Head, the Boston banker, for whom the 
house originally was erected. It is in the Dana’s Beach 
section, otf ot Summer street, the highway leading to 
Magnolia. A new library has been gained and is twice 
the former size, with panelled walls, the doorways show- 
ing fluted pilasters; more of these mark the big fireplace, 
which is especially well designed. The room, by demol- 
ishing two smaller ones, gains 22 feet over its former 
lengtno. Upstairs, changes have been made in the cham- 
bers, which now have panelled walls, for one improve- 
ment. The service part of the house has undergone al- 
terations to make it thoroughly modern in its general 
equipment. The changes were all planned by the Boston 
architects, Bigelow & Wadsworth, and were carried out 
by Roberts & Hoare of Manchester. 
The garage on the George R. White estate, ‘‘Lillio- 
thea,” on Smith’s Point in Manchester, has been made 
fireproof and fitted with tiled floors and in various other 
ways has undergone improvement. It formerly was a 
stable, until converted to its present use from plans by 
Lawrence & Wambolt, the Boston architects. 
Changes at West Manchester 
ORDON ABBOTT'S summer residence at Glass Head, 
West Manchester, has undergone notable improve- 
ments whereby the first floor is almost like new, its big 
living room having a deep fireplace, beamed ceiling and 
casement windows. The library, which is circular in 
shape, shows a floor of stone flags and two rooms with 
intervening bath have been arranged for use of guests. 
They open upon a porch. The hall shows minor changes 
for the better and a new dining porch has been gained, 
with cement walls, tiled floor and glazed-in sides. A new 
laundry and other small changes make more complete the 
service department. Small alterations have been made 
also on the second floor. A new feature is a terrace hav- 
ing a flag-stone pavement. The changes were planned by 
H. M. Hanson of Gloucester, and were carried out by 
Roberts & Hoare of Manchester. 
A brick addition to the William Hooper residence on 
Bridge street in West Manchester provides a new service 
department thoroughly well planned. The wing is of two 
stories and eventually the main part of the house, now of 
clapboards, will be veneered with brick so that the entire 
house will show this exterior finish. The family part of 
the house is later to be remodelled. ‘These changes, 
which were carried out by Roberts & Hoare, were plan- 
ned by Mrs. Hooper to meet her own ideas of certain de- 
sired improvements. 
(Changes at Hamilton and Wenham, Ipswich, Tops- 
field, and Magnolia next week. Ep.) 
