But yours--" He went off into a description of the entrance-hall, reception-room and parlor, which he was arranging and decorating in such a way as to give an effect of size and dignity not really conformable to the actual space.
And when the houses were finished, they were effective and arresting--quite different from the conventional residences of the street.

They were separated by a space of twenty feet, laid out as greensward.

The architect had borrowed somewhat from the Tudor school, yet not so elaborated as later became the style in many of the residences in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

The most striking features were rather deep-recessed doorways under wide, low, slightly floriated arches, and three projecting windows of rich form, one on the second floor of Frank's house, two on the facade of his father's.

There were six gables showing on the front of the two houses, two on Frank's and four on his father's.