Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-15
AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSES

The Growth or Wealth and Leisure
 is Causing English Types 10 be Cop-
 led.
 John Beverley Robinson in the Engineering
 Magsziae.l
 Ia the arrangement of rooms !n the country house some of the English cue American homes the desire for wide slid ing doors between the principal rooms Is very general The effect, when these doors are open, is spacious and PlrasAnt, and the practical utility when the whole house is open for entertaining Is evident. Ia England such large doorwAys are unu susl; each room is separate, giving 6 new scene and new interest as we pass from room to room.
 In onr larger country houses there is 6 tendency to approach the English model in many respects. like causes as usual pro dueing like effects. The development of a class of people of independent means and not depending on their labor for their liv ing, is producing very much such Q hOuee ss the same class, long existing in England, has found best tu!ted 10 hls tastes there. The mot marked feature Is the double en trsnce-the carriage porch and the garden entrance, the enc for the mere business of entering, the other the approach 10 the pleasure grounds. park. garden. CT even merely what we would call yard; for the type persists even In very small ones
 How spontaneously similar circumstsn- css generate similar solutions is illustrated in the plan of & country house to be used as a shooting box lately erected on L1ng leland. There was no especial attempt to initiate Euglish methods. Given a large forest tract, where wild game abounded, a taste on the part of the owner for the chase, a house to be used chiefly for the qualification of this taste, the plan nAtu- rally follows. ons story high, bscauss there Is no need of COEdeus,ng into two or three. No cellar 10 speak of, because the coolness of the summer requires none for keeping things cool, and, the cccupa- ti1n being only in summsr, no cellar need- ed for heating apparatus, or ss frost proof place of deposit. lmmsdistely we have what is seRtislly the English coun- try house. A larga ball, psvsd upon the surface of the soil, properly prepared, in this case paved with brick; long rambling corridors, running of in Une direction 10 bed rooms, in another 10 kitchens and the other offices, & dining room and & quiet, subordinate drawing TO Tn, bondoir for  great hall Finally come the stables and kennels enclosing the gsAveled quadran- gle. This house gives tA- double entrance | again, the garden front-slwsys the prin- | cipal psrt-upon the lawn, the real en- trance, with covered carriage porch in the rear.
 Some English arrangements will rot | bear copyiDg,-their manner of separating
 the dining room from the seTving room and kitchen, for instance. In way thRt
 Is msnifestly studied, but for what real resson the American mind finds 1t hsrd 10 | guess, their dining rooms are placed SO | that sll the dishes must be carried Aeross
 the msin hall, through the only door which is provided for entrance. Inquiry has dis closed that dining-room with more than one doorway Is looked upon as ga terrible plsce for drsughts," and in 6 country | where unwsrmed halls and bare nssks and | arms for dinner aTe the custom snch con- alterations are necessarily paramount.