DOI issue:
No. 135 (May, 1908)
DOI article:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28254#0231
Recent Designs in Domestic A rchitecture
a moulded band. This entrance and the
doorway, in the lawn front of the building
lead into the main hall, at the back of which
is a large limestone mantel, with wide easy
stairs rising from its side and continuing up
behind. This mantel, pierced as it is by an
arch opening on to the stairway—through
which, as well as through the adjacent
wooden arches, can be had glimpses of the
large leaded windows on the stairway—
dominates the hall-way and is one of the
features of the interior. The dining-room is
wainscoted in hand-worked panelling of
mahogany made to accommodate itself to a
number of pieces of mahogany furniture in
the possession of the owner. Looking out
from the dining-room across the main hall
there is a long vista at the end of which is
the rough stone mantel in the living-room.
Conversely this vista terminates with the
many-sashed bay window of the dining-room.
The convenient planning of toilet-rooms,
closets, kitchen, store-rooms, etc., speaks for
itself; while the large, wide porches form a
desirable addition to the living space in the
heat of American summers. The second
story contains many bed-rooms which communicate
with each other as well as with conveniently located
FIREPLACE IN HOUSE AT D. KNICKERBACKKR
BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA BOYD, ARCHITECT
bath-rooms, which do not open directly into any
of the bed-rooms. The servants’ quarters are
HOUSE AT BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA D. KNICKERBACKER BOYD, ARCHITECT
209
a moulded band. This entrance and the
doorway, in the lawn front of the building
lead into the main hall, at the back of which
is a large limestone mantel, with wide easy
stairs rising from its side and continuing up
behind. This mantel, pierced as it is by an
arch opening on to the stairway—through
which, as well as through the adjacent
wooden arches, can be had glimpses of the
large leaded windows on the stairway—
dominates the hall-way and is one of the
features of the interior. The dining-room is
wainscoted in hand-worked panelling of
mahogany made to accommodate itself to a
number of pieces of mahogany furniture in
the possession of the owner. Looking out
from the dining-room across the main hall
there is a long vista at the end of which is
the rough stone mantel in the living-room.
Conversely this vista terminates with the
many-sashed bay window of the dining-room.
The convenient planning of toilet-rooms,
closets, kitchen, store-rooms, etc., speaks for
itself; while the large, wide porches form a
desirable addition to the living space in the
heat of American summers. The second
story contains many bed-rooms which communicate
with each other as well as with conveniently located
FIREPLACE IN HOUSE AT D. KNICKERBACKKR
BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA BOYD, ARCHITECT
bath-rooms, which do not open directly into any
of the bed-rooms. The servants’ quarters are
HOUSE AT BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA D. KNICKERBACKER BOYD, ARCHITECT
209