. American homes and gardens. for the house, part of a hillside,sloping toward the west, was cut away and the earth re-moved thence made into a terrace before the north andsouth fronts. Viewed from a distance—it is impossible toget any adequate notion at close quarters owing to thelay of the land—the building shows a well-balanced, har-monious mass that seems to have sprung very naturallyfrom the hill on which it stands, its many-gabled roof linesmelting into the verdure of the tall trees that form a back-ground. Fox Hill Farmhouse is one of those sensibly plannedstructures that sits down comf
. American homes and gardens. for the house, part of a hillside,sloping toward the west, was cut away and the earth re-moved thence made into a terrace before the north andsouth fronts. Viewed from a distance—it is impossible toget any adequate notion at close quarters owing to thelay of the land—the building shows a well-balanced, har-monious mass that seems to have sprung very naturallyfrom the hill on which it stands, its many-gabled roof linesmelting into the verdure of the tall trees that form a back-ground. Fox Hill Farmhouse is one of those sensibly plannedstructures that sits down comfortably on its foundationsinstead of teetering on French heels, so to speak, as somany houses seem to do, perched half-way to the skies onfoundation walls run to a ridiculous height above groundlevel because of some foolish fancy on the part of architector client. To look at these buildings, remarkably suggest-ive of a Shanghai rooster, one might suppose we had in-herited this mode of construction from lake-dwelling fore-.
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