Architectural Record, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint)

The main porch mentioned is two stories high with aG uastavino arched ceiling. On either end, east and west, are the true verandas consistingof colonnade, and vaulted overhead. The surface of the veranda floor is cement tile 8x8 inches square of a light red color, and beautifully smooth, though of extreme difficulty to lay owingto the brittleness of the material. The main roof of the house is covered with a light red slate. A lighting at the front entrance we have to ascend three granite steps to reach the main threshold. Here we face the large entrance doorway spanned by an elliptical arch of ten feet. The main arch is flanked by two narrow arches, and all three are filled in front of the plate glass openings with a severe and carefully designed grille work or heavy bronze metal, the doors themselves weighing perhaps 800- pounds apiece. Coming through the threshold we enter the main vestibule, floored in green veined Vermont marble, with the wall covered to the ceiling with Pavonazza marble. From the vestibule we pass through a glazed door to the staircase hall. This is the most elaborate piece of design in the house due to the character of the staircase, and the supporting members beneath the gallery. A bove, at the third floor level, is to be seen a true elliptical dome light of late English Renaissance design. The south hall is presumably a living-room rather than hall, opening with three pairs of folding sash on the main south porch. It is severe in detail, and is between the dining-room on the left and the library to the right, the former paneled in mahogany nearly to the ceiling of the later Renaissance period. The library is Empire and joins the south hall through glazed doors beneath two barrel vaults on either side of the hall chimney, giving an extended vista from the dining-room east wall to the west wall of library, 90 feet in length. No bookshe
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