Studio: international art (15.1899)

Studio-Talk

rooms, as it were, in which meals can be taken in
comfort, even in wet weather. The solidity of the
ground floor sandstone wall and buttresses is also
noticeable, the porch of the front door being 7 ft.
thick.

As the position is quite in keeping with its style,
i.e., situated in the clearing of a dense pine-wood;

the front porch at "idaho"

from a drawing by e. w. charlton

as there are beautiful far-reaching views from the
steep hill on which it stands ; and as the house itself
is a model log-house (though on a very large
scale), a backwoodsman coming upon it suddenly

fireplace in the drawing-room at " idaho "

from a drawing by e. w. charlton

(it is so hidden among the pines that it is invisible
at a distance) might well imagine himself in
America, though he might possibly be astonished
at its dimensions. The trees, the rough under-
growth, and fern reach almost up to the walls,

portion of the ball-room at " idaho"

from a drawing by e. w. charlton

except where they have been cut away for necessary
paths, or in order to obtain the views ; the house
stands quite alone in five hundred acres of forest;
there are no gardens or fields around it. It is so
isolated that there is scarcely a sound to be heard,
unless from the many guardian dogs or the keeper's
gun in the valley. It is doubtful if the State of
Idaho could show a log-house as- fine as this, and
corner of the drawing-room at " idaho" for England it is, of course, simply remarkable.

from a drawing by e. w. charlton E. W. C,

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