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Nr. 158 (April 1910)
DOI Artikel:Wallick, Frederick: "Fairacres" and some other recent country houses by Wilson Eyre
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0127
Country Houses by Wilson Eyre
RECEPTION ROOM WILSON EYRE
'FAIRACRES," JENKINTOWN, PA. ARCHITECT
Eyre has followed the English precedent of locating floor have also been provided in connection with the
the principal rooms at the back. The entrance principal bedrooms. The walls here are of brick,
front is given over to drive and service entries, the finished in stucco. The roof is covered with heavy
main hall, kitchen and servants' dining room. The green slates of slightly varying shades. All of the
living apartments are grouped around a recessed outside timber work is in chestnut, hewn out of the
porch on the garden front. A path, at right angles solid wood, with the crude marks of the adze
to the center of the house, broken at intervals by shown. It is his care in such details that helps to
terrace steps and lined by hedges, potted trees and individualize Mr. Eyre's work. Wherever he finds
other shrubbery, serves as the axis for the garden it possible he applies the principles of the crafts-
scheme. The interiors show a rather free adapta- man. Timbers and paneling are pegged; the sur-
tion of various periods, the hall and library suggest- faces of plaster and stucco are rendered as you will
ive in parts of both the Tudor and Jacobean, while find them treated in old work; tiles, hardware—in-
the reception room is reminiscent of a later epoch, deed, every detail of construction—are chosen with
In the summer home of H. W. Rogers, at Spring particular care that they shall bear the impress of
Lake, N. J., a particular study of porches has been hand-wrought work.
made. The house stands within a few hundred feet Mr. Eyre devotes an unusual amount of attention
of the sea. The living and dining rooms, located in to his preliminary studies, frequently developing
the wings, have their separate porches; both are four or five alternate schemes and rendering the one
connected by an arched loggia arranged along one finally chosen in a perspective which shows it in its
side of the entrance hall. Balconies on the second garden setting. The same scheme is followed in
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RECEPTION ROOM WILSON EYRE
'FAIRACRES," JENKINTOWN, PA. ARCHITECT
Eyre has followed the English precedent of locating floor have also been provided in connection with the
the principal rooms at the back. The entrance principal bedrooms. The walls here are of brick,
front is given over to drive and service entries, the finished in stucco. The roof is covered with heavy
main hall, kitchen and servants' dining room. The green slates of slightly varying shades. All of the
living apartments are grouped around a recessed outside timber work is in chestnut, hewn out of the
porch on the garden front. A path, at right angles solid wood, with the crude marks of the adze
to the center of the house, broken at intervals by shown. It is his care in such details that helps to
terrace steps and lined by hedges, potted trees and individualize Mr. Eyre's work. Wherever he finds
other shrubbery, serves as the axis for the garden it possible he applies the principles of the crafts-
scheme. The interiors show a rather free adapta- man. Timbers and paneling are pegged; the sur-
tion of various periods, the hall and library suggest- faces of plaster and stucco are rendered as you will
ive in parts of both the Tudor and Jacobean, while find them treated in old work; tiles, hardware—in-
the reception room is reminiscent of a later epoch, deed, every detail of construction—are chosen with
In the summer home of H. W. Rogers, at Spring particular care that they shall bear the impress of
Lake, N. J., a particular study of porches has been hand-wrought work.
made. The house stands within a few hundred feet Mr. Eyre devotes an unusual amount of attention
of the sea. The living and dining rooms, located in to his preliminary studies, frequently developing
the wings, have their separate porches; both are four or five alternate schemes and rendering the one
connected by an arched loggia arranged along one finally chosen in a perspective which shows it in its
side of the entrance hall. Balconies on the second garden setting. The same scheme is followed in
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