Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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December, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 427
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The house at St. Martins, the home of Mr. Paul Crompton, faces away from the roadway in order that the front may command the lovely view of the surrounding country, an arrangement that homebuilders having similar sites might do well to bear in mind c, Bi^\ /V / c) W %^F^L ~j - ?L%sP% ^%~y r* V 1 *~- '->. ^■/^frj'-y f C %L^£y- ,i'- kkV 1 :H 1 -- - -— p- A House at St. Martins An American House of Distinction in One of Philadelphia's Most Attractive Suburbs By Harold Donaldson Eberlein Photographs by Jessie Tarbox Beals and T. C. Turner ITH a patron saint to keep watch and ward genious at times at good St. Martins expense, all of which, and drive away all evil sprites, the house before us ought to be a place good to live in, even if its material charms were less than they are. St. Martin, the patron saint of the neighborhood, instead of lingering about the church hard by that bears his name, has favored this house and taken up his permanent and visible abode on the eastern chimney, where the white background well sets off his coppery complexion. Approaching from the north, south or east, he is the very first thing to catch the eye and his presence confers up- on the house a distinguished individuality. It was a pret- ty conceit, and appropriate, to fix him there, cut out of sheet copper, caught at the one supreme moment of his life, performing the act that entitled him to canonization, or rather, the act that evi- denced his fitness for saint- hood—dividing his military cloak with his sword to give away a half in charity. Some undiscriminating folk have mistaken him for an imp— perish the thought!—others have waxed facetiously in-

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