DOI issue:
Nr. 176 (October, 1911)
DOI article:A Minnesota country house
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0353
A Duluth, Minnesota, Residence
A MINNESOTA COUNTRY HOUSE
In Duluth, Minnesota, placed in an
k ample setting of formal garden and
grounds overlooking Lake Superior,
there has recently been built a large country house
which is of no small interest as a presentation of
an unusually careful study of Elizabethan period
work.
The vestibule and stair hall are conscientiously
worked out in the style variously termed “Eliza-
bethan ” or “Tudor,” and the detailsare unusually
well studied, with woodwork carried out in fumed
oak, and with a simple ceiling of ornamental plas-
ter. Throughout the hall excellent general pro-
portions have been obtained, and a structural as
well as an historically accurate handling is to be
observed in that most difficult of all problems of
detail—the ramps and newels of the great stair
hall. The furniture is reproduced from models of
the period, and the Oriental rugs were selected
with a view of color conformity with the dull hue
of the oak walls.
In the breakfast room, or sun room, however, the
William A. French &= Co. THE HALL
Decorators and Furnishers
Minneapolis, Minn.
or three shades of green, is carried to the height of
the transom bar over the door. Above this line
treatment is an entire departure from any specific
“period” work, and illustrates an unusually inter-
esting conception of conservative “craft” style,
with all the originality and beauty but none of the
ultra-bizarre element of much foreign work of this
sort. The tile wall, of Rookwood faience, in two
there is a wood frieze treatment of chestnut clev-
erly incorporated by means of brackets with the
beamed ceiling in such a manner as to tie the com-
ponent parts of the room together in a peculiarly
logical and consistent way, which is at once restful
to the eye and satisfying to the mind. This incor-
poration in treatment of tile
and wood is further effected
by a green acid stain. The
walls have been furred out
below the windows to form
wide sills, and accommodate
radiators as well, while the
green tiles of the wall carry
the eye to the green tiles
of the floor. Throughout,
where applied decoration
has been used, it is based
on a motive of oak leaves
and acorns, which appear in
the glass of the windows and
transoms, in the tile niche,
and carved in the specially
designed table and chairs.
Nor have the architects
spared less study or express-
ed less originality and con-
scientious detail in the many
other rooms of this attrac-
tive house.
William A. French & Co., Decorators and Furnishers THE STAIRWAY
Minneapolis, Minn.
LXXVI
A MINNESOTA COUNTRY HOUSE
In Duluth, Minnesota, placed in an
k ample setting of formal garden and
grounds overlooking Lake Superior,
there has recently been built a large country house
which is of no small interest as a presentation of
an unusually careful study of Elizabethan period
work.
The vestibule and stair hall are conscientiously
worked out in the style variously termed “Eliza-
bethan ” or “Tudor,” and the detailsare unusually
well studied, with woodwork carried out in fumed
oak, and with a simple ceiling of ornamental plas-
ter. Throughout the hall excellent general pro-
portions have been obtained, and a structural as
well as an historically accurate handling is to be
observed in that most difficult of all problems of
detail—the ramps and newels of the great stair
hall. The furniture is reproduced from models of
the period, and the Oriental rugs were selected
with a view of color conformity with the dull hue
of the oak walls.
In the breakfast room, or sun room, however, the
William A. French &= Co. THE HALL
Decorators and Furnishers
Minneapolis, Minn.
or three shades of green, is carried to the height of
the transom bar over the door. Above this line
treatment is an entire departure from any specific
“period” work, and illustrates an unusually inter-
esting conception of conservative “craft” style,
with all the originality and beauty but none of the
ultra-bizarre element of much foreign work of this
sort. The tile wall, of Rookwood faience, in two
there is a wood frieze treatment of chestnut clev-
erly incorporated by means of brackets with the
beamed ceiling in such a manner as to tie the com-
ponent parts of the room together in a peculiarly
logical and consistent way, which is at once restful
to the eye and satisfying to the mind. This incor-
poration in treatment of tile
and wood is further effected
by a green acid stain. The
walls have been furred out
below the windows to form
wide sills, and accommodate
radiators as well, while the
green tiles of the wall carry
the eye to the green tiles
of the floor. Throughout,
where applied decoration
has been used, it is based
on a motive of oak leaves
and acorns, which appear in
the glass of the windows and
transoms, in the tile niche,
and carved in the specially
designed table and chairs.
Nor have the architects
spared less study or express-
ed less originality and con-
scientious detail in the many
other rooms of this attrac-
tive house.
William A. French & Co., Decorators and Furnishers THE STAIRWAY
Minneapolis, Minn.
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