{"id":566,"date":"1954-02-19T12:43:36","date_gmt":"1954-02-19T17:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/?p=566"},"modified":"2016-06-26T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T17:45:32","slug":"wayne-estate-house-b-and-house-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Estate: \u201cHouse B\u201d and \u201cHouse C\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the three weeks during which the pictures of the Wayne Estate houses have appeared in this column your columnist has attended no gathering, social or otherwise, at which some mention has not been made by one, and usually several people concerning their enjoyment of pictures that have already appeared and of their pleasurable anticipation of those that are still to come.<\/p>\n

Except for newcomers, the prevailing note is mostly one of nostalgia. Many who are now in apartments or one story ranch type houses, watched their young families grow up in the rambling comfort of a Wayne Estate house.<\/p>\n

\"58_image01\"<\/a>And it is certainly in just such a nostalgic mood that your columnist studies the first picture shown in today’s column. For it was in a house built from this plan that her own brood of six grew up in the 400 block on Midland avenue. Almost all of the houses on this particular block were owner-occupied. Few families moved away, and if one did, another family with children moved in. Over a period of almost 20 years, the youthful population of that block quite consistently averaged between 30 and 35. Wayne Estate houses were planned for just such large families.<\/p>\n

The design of this house incorporated \u201cvery substantial construction and roomy interior\u2026 cut stone gable in the front, in which a stone archway forms the entrance.\u201d The first floor had \u201ca large reception room and library, with open fireplace, same built of stone\u2026 wide hallway to the stairs\u2026 a dining room with corner cupboards for china\u2026 pantry, kitchen and out-kitchen, rear stairs and a porch at the back door.\u201d On the second floor were \u201cfive spacious chambers, three of them communicating, all well lighted, and every one opening to the hallway. On the third floor were \u201ctwo large bedrooms, two closets and a store room.\u201d But for all seven bedrooms there was but one bath, as was the usual thing in these houses when they were built.<\/p>\n

\"58_image02\"<\/a>\u201cA very odd and tasty bit of rural architecture\u201d is the description given this type house in the 1890 brochure from which these pictures have been reproduced. A wide porch at the front entrance extended along one side of the house. A \u201cspecial feature\u201d of the interior included \u201cstairs in a turret, open grates in library and parlor and general compactness. The five second-floor bedrooms had \u201cuseful closets in the corners\u201d and there is a notation that the bathroom was \u201ca large one.\u201d On the third floor, in addition to two large servants’ rooms, there was \u201ca considerable amount of room for storage purposes.\u201d (These special provisions for servants who \u201cslept in\u201d may well seem strange ones to the present day housewife who manages her Wayne Estate house with the assistance of one or two days of \u201coutside help.\u201d)<\/p>\n

(To be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the three weeks during which the pictures of the Wayne Estate houses have appeared in this column your columnist has attended no gathering, social or otherwise, at which some mention has not been made by one, and usually several people concerning their enjoyment of pictures that have already appeared and of their pleasurable anticipation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}