In the middle of the paved entry, enclosed by a ring of fastigiate evergreens, the fountain’s waterspout rises high into the air before falling twelve feet into the large sunken pool below. The visual axis extends to and through the foyer and down the allee of cherry trees to the rose-covered pergola at the property’s end.
The three-story foyer connects the two wings of the building, each centered on a courtyard enclosed on all sides by a three-tiered colonnade and treated like a giardino sereto, with it's fountain at the center and columnar evergreens at the four corners.
