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Continuation sheet 36 loin number 7 Page 37
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NC 159 House ca t940 A 1½-story, L-plan, gable-roof cottage with darkstained
clapboard siding and a small porch sheltering the main en
trance.
160 Bellefort, Yosemite ca 1917 A picturesque 2½-story stone and
stucco dwelling in a sophisticated revival style based on Engl isli
domestic architecture of the Stuart period - The house’s long rec
tangular-block mass is covered by a hip-reef with extended side
slopes. An off-center, end-gable front pavilion contains asym
metrically placed vertical- and horizontal-hand stairhal 1’ windows
and an entrance sheltered .by a smal 1, off-center stied-roof perch.
The asymmetri cal fenestration includes glazed arches that light a
recessed porch at one end of the house. The roof, anchored hy a
pair of tall, pilaster-and-panel interior chimneys, contains small
hip- roof front deriners and a large gabled side dormer over the re
cessed end porch.
161 Norman Hal.!, later Stone House or Tilime Castie IBIS- 16; MoN IT.
Schmidt of New York, a rcli i tect A large, ramnhi i rig, story
dwelling- of coursed rock-face stone, built in the Norman Farmhouse
style. The main block, with. a tail hip-roof, has a long gable-roof
wing running at an angle off one front corner. A 1-story, cyl imidri
cal, conical-roof entrance tower is set off-center en the facade next
to a 2-story, end-gable stair tower. A hip-roof pavilion with a
recessed, arcaded perch in its base is attached to the side opposite
that with the angled wing, and the rear facade has a shialiocv, endgable
pavilion and a tall cylindrical, conical-roof tower at the
junction of the main block and the angled wing. The house is set on
well -landscaped acreage with several Norman-style stone outbuildings.
It ‘was built for Wil ham IV. Lawrence, who died a month after its
completion, whereupon the property was sold to C. Ba i Li lime of
Chicago. Mr. li-lime was president of the Matthiesen hleg her Zinc
Company of lasalle, I Lii.nois, amid served as a director of several
Chicago-area banks and Oklahoma and Montana. mining companies.
162 Sea Ga rdens 1954 David Osborne, architect A 2-story, lila t - roof,
clapboard Con tempera ry style dwell imig with a synimetrica I fenes t rat] on
of casement, awning, and plate-gi ass windows and an extensive secondstory
deck on stilt supports. Michigan architect David Oshorne built
the house as a summer residence for himself.
- See Continuation Sheet /37 --