Evening star., 1923-08-12
SEASHORE MANSION
OPEN TO COOLIDGE
Friends Urge President to
Spend Summer at Red
Gables, on Coast.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, August 11.-New England
ers from Maine to Connecticut. all
friends of President Coolidge, solicit
tous for his welfare and his health,
are urging him to leave behind him
the crowded, busy scenes of Washing
ton. where heat may be SO oppressive,
where a thousand and one unimpor-
tant and useless duties interfere with
his urgent ones. where earnest but
unthinking callers from all over the
country make needless demands on
his time, and where condition are so
unsettled regards house and offices
that confusion is an inevitable result.
one and all point to the ideal place
for him to go-Swampscott. Mass TO
the house Of his friend, Frank W
Stearns There, he is told. he may
ciates about him, and there he can
conduct affairs amid peaceful sur
roundings.
House Isolated.
If it is quiet and peace that the
President needs; there is no doubt
that Red Cables" as Mr.. Stearns
calls his house. can supply it almost
in Vermont, for the house is set on a
little point and approached by a pri-
vate drive which serves but one or
two other dwellings. and It's sur
rounding grounds are conducive 70
restfulness. The lawns are smooth
with fresh, close cropped green turf
shaded by score of large elnls and
oaks, between two of which hang old
| fashioned rope swings. OF the old
fashioned variety. too are the gar
dens that stand between the front
porch and the slope 10 the sea which
lies just beyond adjacent trees.
/ - frr fr,y cat
type of architecture but ramhles end
lessly and aimlessly over its little
knoll. Its clapboarded sides are
of pure white, and its precipitous roof,
from which the house takes its name,
is of deep red. At first sight il Is not
ostentatious, and the feeling of SIM
plicity grows all the more strong as
ample, faces the approaching drive,
and there. under simple and severe
portico. is set a great. heavy door.
the key to which is fully six inches
! long.
Farmhouse Verandn.
A veranda closely resembling that
of an ordinary New England farm
house on the ocean side. The room
that President and Mrs. Coolidge
have many times occupied In the
last two years that Mr.. Stearns has
corner over the veranda. The main
entrance leads directly irto one OF
tho oldest halls imaginable for II
is set on level of its own and . 3,
white balcony surrounds II. of
which are the living apartments.
Indeed. one can see into the living
room, almost complete story above
Here surelv is the essence of rest
| fuinoss. II tasty adaptation of the
! New England architectural tradi-
tipDS ran give il II rha wood work
is glistening white. The decorations
arc Of the coolest blue ard the pic
! lures are the most conventional Of
/ fam liar masterpiece reproductions,
| Pink Rose Design.
! The room in which the President al
ways has stayed. and in which he TN
doubtedly will continue to stay is
typical of all the chambers. Its cell
+, ing is heavily pitched and the wall
paper is of the most familiar design
of pink roses. The gabled window
looks out across the smooth lawn TO g.
glimpse of the sea, near but faint be-
tween the trees. The only decora
tions in the room are two familiar
masterpieces and framed sampler
with the motto: Face the sunshine
and shadows will fall behind YOU"
The entire house bears not the
! slightest trace of grandeur. 1t could
never be put down as an obvious sum-
mer residence of the head of 8 nation.
! 1t Is far too unassuming. too-what
can one say?-New England And.
] President Coolidge to occupy. For
! house and grounds of greater peace
and quiet. of greater reStfulness and
ease. one would have to search far.
/ 1t is to be regretted, almost. that its
repose must he broken. President
Coolidge will do we'll to go to Red
! Gab!es"-an ideal summer White
House. II there be such.