. American homes and gardens. ontage making it aperfect spot for the final edifice which was projected bythe owners imagination even all those years ago. The house is embowered in trees. Every main room possesses an uninterrupted outlook across the beautifulSound, one of the most beautiful stretches of water in thecountry. Too often it happens that builders by the seaalienate the house from the shore by obtrusive artificialities,or by approaches that make for isolation rather than forconjunction with the natural setting. Shore Rocks ishappy in having escaped the result of any such mistakes. It
. American homes and gardens. ontage making it aperfect spot for the final edifice which was projected bythe owners imagination even all those years ago. The house is embowered in trees. Every main room possesses an uninterrupted outlook across the beautifulSound, one of the most beautiful stretches of water in thecountry. Too often it happens that builders by the seaalienate the house from the shore by obtrusive artificialities,or by approaches that make for isolation rather than forconjunction with the natural setting. Shore Rocks ishappy in having escaped the result of any such mistakes. Itis, instead, a perfect example of the knitting together ofthe proper house to its site, both being welded, as it were,into one fiber of harmonious beauty. One approaches Shore Rocks from its land sidethrough the entrance-gates in the low stone wall, an archedlych gate being the form of the entrance to the servicepath, an approach screened with shrubbery. The approachto the water-front of the house is most interesting inasmuch. The lawn front of the house, with its broad entrance doorway, faces a situation in charming contrast with the water view 52 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1913
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