. American homes and gardens. e structure while, on the otherhand, any sense of undue heaviness would be allayed bythe jaunty kick-up of the roof at the eaves. The longslant of the tops of the dormers, merging into the roofjust at the gambrel joint, preserves the harmony ofline and avoids any suggestion of fidgety unrest—acommon failing withdormers. Barge-boards, cornices,window-sashes and framesand all other trims are whitewhile the shutters are greenso that, with the weather-stained face of the shingles,the building presents anagreeable and restful colorscheme or gray, white andgreen. e whol
. American homes and gardens. e structure while, on the otherhand, any sense of undue heaviness would be allayed bythe jaunty kick-up of the roof at the eaves. The longslant of the tops of the dormers, merging into the roofjust at the gambrel joint, preserves the harmony ofline and avoids any suggestion of fidgety unrest—acommon failing withdormers. Barge-boards, cornices,window-sashes and framesand all other trims are whitewhile the shutters are greenso that, with the weather-stained face of the shingles,the building presents anagreeable and restful colorscheme or gray, white andgreen. e whole aspect of the h . as regards color-\r\r osition of mass and arrangement of fenestra-te straightforward and» some. There areplenty of windows so thatthe house looks wide awake,th .y are of generous dimen-s ons and their placing trulyreflects a simple and sensibleinside plan. The shuttersare of so unusual a patternthat they deserve a word inpassing. As may be seen,each one is divided vertically The veranda end of the house. from half-timber methods of building, the massive chimneyconstruction—the house is literally anchored to its hearth-stones—the breadth of beam and spread of roof-tree, thelow-browed staunchness of mien, the severe simplicitythroughout from ground to ridge-pole—all these are trueearmarks of a well-developed American style long ante-dating the accession of theHanoverian line in England,a style full of virility andworthy of revival. Of course sundry adapta-tions have been made inWye House but always ina spirit fully sympatheticwith precedent and, as statedbefore, the characteristics oftwo old homes have beeninterwoven and combining of fea-tures, tried and proved bylong experience, has doubt-less made the result so per-fectly satisfactory -and liv-able. All this, be it remem-bered, without doing theleast violence to archetypaltraditions. Directly upon crossing thethreshold of Wye one in-stinctively feels that here isa house where the f
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