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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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hesepavilions, separates the arches from the upper floors, whichare built out over them. A pair of triple windows lights thesecond story, and a single twin window the gable end. Thelatter are completed with a stone coping, broken, in one, bya corner projection, while the other includes no interruption.The loggia arches include balustrades; on the right each sidereturn has a flight of steps; to the left there is but one sideflight, the arch to the right opening directly onto the terracearranged between the two wings, and which has an inclosingbalustrade and central steps to the lawn below. The connecting wall has a great central mullioned win-dow, reaching the full height of two stories. To the rightis a tower, with an octagonal lantern and dome rising clearabove the other roofs, and daringly placed to one side. Itdominates the whole house, and while it occupies an unsym-metrical position, it seems, and rightly enough, to be thecentermost element in the whole composition. But the tower
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The Hall is a Magnificent Room Paneled Throughout in Dark Oak November, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 287 is more than a culminative feature in the design, for its grace-ful summit conceals the tank from which the water supply ofthe house is obtained. The differently projected wings which were the distin-guishing feature of the hill front form the basis of the designof the entrance front. The window treatment of the endsis somewhat different, because on this side the right wing isthe service wing, and contains a central corridor, while in theother wings the rooms take up the full width of the availablespace. The service yard is separated from the entrance fore-court by a brick wall, with a gateway formed by two hand-some posts. The entrance doorway is placed in a semi-octa-gonal vestibule, whose cornice is supported on stone pilasters. The plan of the house is immediately disclosed within, forthe whole of the center is occupied with the main hall, asuperb apartment rising to the ful

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