YEAR BUILT:1892
STYLE:GEORGIAN
ARCHITECT:EDWIN J. LEWIS

In the 1890s, Edwin J. Lewis was Ashmont Hill's favorite architect, designing no fewer than ten houses on Roslin and nearby Harley and Walton streets. Nine of the ten are excellent examples of the Shingle Style. Here the prototype was not a picturesque cottage but a symmetrical Georgian house, with the soft texture of shingles replaced by the crispness of clapboards. Looking ahead to a more modern idiom, Lewis also emphasizes the horizontal in the wide overhang of the eaves, the "belt line" between the first and second floors, and the broad, low proportions of the windows. To find comparable horizontality in the 1890s, one must look to the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright around Chicago.

A Dutch door with delicate classical trim and leaded-glass sidelights leads to the central hall and stairway, with the music room and den to the right, the parlor and dining room to the left. The generous openings leading to these rooms were made feasible by the advent of central heating: it was no longer necessary to close rooms against drafts. Pocket doors between the front and rear rooms give spatial continuity, as does the consistent use of white trim and butter-yellow walls.