Identifier: americanestatesg00ferr (find matches)
Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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e, with boxes for wraps and dressing-rooms in the main building,and where a stairway conducts them to the main floor. This arrangement has simplified thehandling of the great crowds that throng the White House at receptions and on other festivaloccasions; for more than any other house in America this building is the scene of great functions,bringing together immense numbers of people, that call for broad passages for their coming andgoing, and enormous rooms for their entertainment. The famous screen of colored glass, placed by President Arthur between the vestibuleand the main corridor, has been removed, and six white marble columns, grouped in pairs,substituted for it. The keynote of the interior is thus set by the pure Colonial treatmentof the vestibule and the main corridor, the latter with pilastered walls and round arched niches,with electric light standards of beautiful design. The walls are painted Colonial yellow, anda dull red carpet is laid on the center of the stone floor.
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Copyright by B. M. Clinedinst. THE WHITE HOUSE—THE MAIN CORRIDOR. (41) AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS The East Room—^unquestionably the most famous room in America—is entered by thenew stairs from the lower hall at its north end. It is a magnificent apartment, eighty feet long,forty feet wide, and twenty-two feet in height. The walls are paneled throughout with wood,save for a base of red Numidian marble, the panels being enclosed between pilasters supportinga finely modeled cornice. Over the doors and above the panels are sculptured reliefs—twelvein all—illustrating ^^sops fables. The woodwork is wholly in white, with a high enamel finish;the four mantels are of richly colored marble, and the curtains and hangings are of yellow.The floor is superbly polished, and the ceiling, from which hang three immense crystal chan-deliers, is delicately enriched with finely modeled ornament. Low stools, covered with the samerich material that is used for the hangings, are aiTanged around

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