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Bryn Mawr

6/7/2014

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My favorite home, and one I've always wanted to explore.  It was built in the early 1900s in a Quaker style but with an Italianate terrace to the side.  Originally there were 17 acres, now reduced to a couple and the formal garden this pergola connected to has disappeared.  Wonderful old wisteria vines wrap around the columns and provide shade in the seating area around what is now a pool.  Looking at the house plans that were framed inside this was once the site of a formal garden, with spectacular views over rolling countryside and terraces down to a formal garden and more terraces below.  Now unfortunately it looks down on the roof of neighboring houses.

There were wonderful details throughout the house, light airy rooms, bookshelves and a wonderful small fireplace complete with ash and damper that went nowhere -- the current owner said when he finally found the house plans he discovered that in the 1920s when they added a pool room and porch they just knocked down the chimney to make room but left the fireplace.  I loved the thick stone walls and the chunkiness of these supporting brackets.  Everything on a grand but simple scale.

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