. The century illustrated monthly magazine . ment story in addition. The design is not only the result and patent only to the analyzingthought.) The long hall has its length skill-fully masked by diversities of trend, and bydiversities of level too. Nor is there any mo-notony in the long succession of rooms whichopen out of it all on the same side; wemerely think how fortunate it is that they allare placed so as to command the lovely valleylandscape. No interior could be better fitted for com-fortable, refined, hospitable country living;and the exterior is perfectly in keeping. It tellsplainly
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . ment story in addition. The design is not only the result and patent only to the analyzingthought.) The long hall has its length skill-fully masked by diversities of trend, and bydiversities of level too. Nor is there any mo-notony in the long succession of rooms whichopen out of it all on the same side; wemerely think how fortunate it is that they allare placed so as to command the lovely valleylandscape. No interior could be better fitted for com-fortable, refined, hospitable country living;and the exterior is perfectly in keeping. It tellsplainly of the inside, and its quaint rusticity—suggested doubtless by a certain type of Englishfarm-house—is not a thought too rustic. Themodel has been altered into greater refinementand dignity of expression, and has also beenadapted in all its features to our new climaticneeds. All about Boston, and all along the beautifulrocky forest-fringed shore to the northward(near those early towns where so many of our AMERICAN COUNTRY DWELLINGS. 209. best colonial relics may be seen), lie summercolonies in thick succession;—some of themrich in the revelation of architectural eccen-tricity, but others yearly growing rich in bet-ter wealth. Here Mr. Emerson is at home,and here are many of his most successfulessays in the branch of work to which he hasalmost exclusively devoted himself. One—a house for Mrs. Hemenway, near Manches-ter— was pictured in a former chapter. Andherewith is given a quite insufficient sketchof another, which from the nature of its sitecould not be more adequately portrayed. It stands near Prides Crossing, on one ofthe narrowest and ruggedest of those highwooded promontories which, alternating withlittle valleys (also filled with forest to thevery beach-edge), make the Beverly shore souniquely lovely—on such a rocky and brdkenand limited site, indeed, that many thought itfolly to talk of building there at all. It is hardto explain the charm of this house, fo
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