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INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO
VOL. LX. No. 237 Copyright, 1916, by John Lane Company NOVEMBER, 1916

A WASHINGTON RESIDENCE
BY W. H. de B. NELSON
The residence of Hon. Henry White,

at Washington, D. C., is not only note-
worthy on its own account but also for being one
of the first homes of distinction built out of the

residential section, thus forming the nucleus of a
new quarter and creating a high standard of ex-
cellence which is reacting upon the new edifices
now being constructed about that most exclusive

AN INTERIOR


district. The tendency to maintain a high plane
of architecture is very marked in America’s capir
tai and in no house more so than in this.
The hilly character of the terrain offered un4
usual problems for study in order to adapt the
building satisfactorily by means of retaining walls!
and ramps to the different elevations demanded!
On approaching the house one appreciates
how more than intelligently this difficult^
has been overcome, whilst preserving those feaf
tures which domestic architecture so insistently
calls for; direct and simple treatment of a quality
not to impair the requisite feeling of domesticity:
The house in this case had to be studied from a
twofold point of view. It was to be in character
with its owner and at the same time gratify every
claim that the necessities of an ambassadorial
mansion might be expected to impose. Here agaiii
as in other houses lately erected, for instance, for
Airs. Arthur Scott Burden and for Airs. S. Ri
Hitt, Air. John Russell Pope, the architect, has
succeeded in stamping the building with the chart
acter and ideals of the occupants, a consummation
which is only realisable where complete co-operl
ation and agreement of taste reign between archil
tect and client.
Whilst the house is Georgian in character, posf
sessing throughout its simple mass of brick and
stone that intimate feeling which the English
architecture of that period invariably inspires^
one notices with pleasure how Air. Pope has gone
behind and beyond the English ideal in the exe-
cution of detail, where the best Italian spirit is
charmingly employed and forms a happy alliance
in style, revealing the sources of influence which
produced the finest examples in England in past
ages.
The entrance portico on the north, with its
impressive porte cochere, is repeated on the south
or garden side. It will be seen how the dignity