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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar00newy (find matches)
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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February, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS this. The first story of the extremities of the four wings are treated as loggias; those toward the forecourt are inclosed within beautiful decorative lattice screens, and those toward the water are open and are used as open rooms directly over- looking the sea. The space between them forms a terrace in- closed within a balustrade, which is repeated in the base of the windows of the loggias. Of the other external features of the house it is sufficient to point out that on one side is an open porch supported by high columns, and on the other, which is the kitchen side, is a sunken inclosure containing a clothes yard and a court for the delivery service. While the plan of the house would seem to suggest a plan the lower walls. The floor is of black and white marble. Directly in face, as one enters, is a large mirror and on either side round-arched doorways with glazed doors leading to the drawing-room. The end walls have each an archway ad- mitting to a passage to the adjoining rooms, the twin open- ing adjoining being filled with a mirror. Costly marble vases stand in this hall. The drawing-room is a spacious and beautiful room, whose three windows look onto the terrace on the water front. It is paneled in white throughout, with large, square, plain panels and smaller ones on each side of the opening which are decorated throughout in relief, the larger ones being plain
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The Library Walls are Paneled in White and French Gray. The Curtains are of Gray Silk, and the Predominating Color of the Furniture is the Same of some complexity, it is in reality very simple and direct in its arrangements. The entrance doorway conducts one im- mediately to the vestibule; beyond it, and overlooking the water directly in the center of the house, is the drawing-room; to the right is the library; to the left the dining-room; the wing adjoining the latter is completely given over to the kitchen and service departments; the wing on the right con- tains a large room devoted to the use of the children of the family. The vestibule, or entrance hall, is an oblong apartment covered with a vaulted ceiling. The main arches are paneled in smaller rectangular panels, but all of the other surfaces are undecorated, save for the indication of stone courses in with small rectangular decorated panels above them. The openings are arched, but the doors are rectangular in shape, with decorated tympanums in relief within the inclosing arches. There are three built-in mirrors in the room, a round- top one over the mantel of mottled marble, which is placed in the center of the entrance wall, and a rectangular mirror in the center of each end wall. The ceiling is plain, but sup- ported on a detailed cornice. The curtains are of light blue silk, and the furniture, which is of white and gold, is covered with the same delicate material. The hardwood floor is cov- ered with a rug in harmony with the furnishings of the room. The library walls are paneled in white and French gray. The panels are somewhat strongly molded, but are plain

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