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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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1 —Brown Stained Shingles and Cream White Trim Is the Color Scheme of the House the same and the whole finished with a neat mantel shelf. The drawing-room is also treated with ivory white paint, and has a bay window and an open fireplace which is built of brick and furnished with tiled facings and hearth, and a mantel of Colonial style. The living-room, trimmed with mahogany, has a fireplace of brick, bookcase built in and a bay window. The den has a beamed ceiling, a paneled wains- coting, bookcases, and an open fireplace. The dining-room is most attractive and is artistically treated. The walls have a paneled wainscoting, and this to- gether with the • trimmings and doors are painted an o 1 d ivory white. The walls above this wainscoting are covered with burlap of a mustard color, forming a very ex- cellent setting for the plates of old delft blue which forms one of the in- teresting character- istics of the room. The fireplace has facings and a hearth of rough faced delft blue tile, and a man- tel with cabinets over the shelf with lattice glass doors. The buffet and a china closet is also built in with lattice glass doors. The bay window has a
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2—An ELxcellent Arrangement of Rooms Is Noted by a Study of the Plans

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