Edmund B. Gilchrist, architect. The house stands upon a plateau that is high above the Park Drive, yet lower than the approach at the community lane at the north, which is also used by neighboring property owners. For a site that is below the road on one side, and high above it on the other, one appreciates the wisdom of the choice dictating a long simple roof, broken only by the three unobtrusive dormers on each side. The exterior walls are of a warm, ivory plaster, rough in texture, with ivory-white trellises, and sash, green shutters, and weathered brown shingles and porch structure. A stone wall coped with brick bounds the northern and eastern edges of the property, inside of which the land is terraced down to the plateau. In the library, the fireplace treatment is particularly effective in its simple gray moldings, the carved wood cartouche in the center, and the ivory-plastered wall. In the dining-room the wall covering is a robin's egg blue in color, contrasting pleasantly with ivory-white woodwork, and the furniture of dull mahogany. From the library, French casements open out onto the brick-paved porch, which by its advantageous western exposure catches every summer breeze. On the second floor a long gallery joins two distinct suites of rooms, each consisting of two bedrooms, and a tiled-floor bath. Here all the woodwork, excepting the mahogany stair-rail, is ivory-white.

 

Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival House Plans
Inexpensive Homes of Individuality.

BEING A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND
FLOOR PLANS ILLUSTRATING CERTAIN OF
AMERICA'S BEST COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN
HOMES OF MODERATE SIZE

EDITED BY
HENRY H. SAYLOR

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
FRANK MILES DAY
PAST PRESIDENT AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS

A List of the Contributing Architects

Albro & Lindeberg, NYC
William A. Bates, NYC
Arthur B. Benton, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence Visscher Boyd, Philadelphia, PA
Lawrence Buck, Chicago, IL
Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, Philadelphia, PA
Aymar Embury II, NYC
J. Sumner Fowler, Boston, MA
Edmund B. Gilcrest, St. Martin's, PA
J. Acker Hays, NYC
Oswald C. Hering, NTC
Hollingsworth & Bragdon, Cranford, NJ
W. E. Jackson, Philadelphia, PA
Charles Barton Keen, Philadelphia, PA
McIlvain & roberts, Philadelphia, PA
Mellor & Meigs, Philadelphia, PA
Christopher Myers, Montclair, NJ
Ernest Newton, London, England
Joseph W. Northrop, Bridgeport, CT
Squires & Wynkoop, NYC
F. M. Summerville, NYC
Tallmadge & Watson, Chicago, IL

Homes of Individuality: 20 Tudor and Colonial Revival House Plans
Originally published in 1912 in New York by McBride, Nast & Company.
Illustrated with 20 house plans and 36 house designs in the Tudor Revival or Colonial Revival style.

Homes of Individuality, 1912

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