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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
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390 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS October, 1907 with a high wainscoting finished with a plate rack. The stair- case to the second story is recessed into an alcove just be- yond the space occupied by the study. Opening from the alcove is the lavatory. The kitchen is conveniently arranged with a large pantry, range, sink and laundry tubs. The shop off the living- room is fitted with all the appliances for work. The room could be util- ized for a dining- room under ordi- nary circumstances. There are two bedrooms and a large bathroom on the second floor; the bathroom is wain- scoted with tiles and is furnished with porcelain fixtures and exposed plumb- ing. The house cost five thousand five hundred dollars complete, and was designed by Mr. C. Schubert, architect, of Dyker Heights. A Vjoncrete Block H ouse on Staten Island The blocks of which the m a i n walls of this house, which was built by Mr. James W. Hughes, were con- structed were made in a Normandin ma- chine, a small shed supplying the neces- sary shelter for the blocks until hard- ened enough to be piled in the yard, where they werekept wet for about ten days. While the blocks were hard en- ough to be laid in the wall in two weeks, it was possi- ble to make enough in advance so that the majority were nearer a month old before moving them from the y ^ r d. Three sizes of blocks were used, 12 inch for the basement, 8 inch for the walls and 6 inch for the interior partition walls. The blocks were made of Atlas Portland cement and coarse sand, in the pro- portion of one of cement to four of sand. The walls were laid up in a cement mortar. These blocks are easily laid,
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9-A He Built for they require a small number of joints and little mortar. There is, of course, some objection to the uneven breaks in the blocks about the windows and doors and at the corners of the building, but this is very easily overcome, as in the present case, by giving the whole structure a coat of cement mortar finished with a pebble dash. There have been quite a few houses built with solid re- inforced concrete walls, but this hol- low block construc- tionhasan ad- vantage over the former, for the rea- son that the hollow spaces keep out all possible dampness and also form good ducts for the run- ning of ventilating flues, pipes and elec- tric wires. The exterior walls are tinted a cream yellow, while the sashes and the smooth spaces about the windows are painted white. The blinds are painted bottle green, and the roof is covered with shingles stained a moss green. The plans practically reproduce an earlier house. The hall is trimmed with oak, and it has an ornamental stair- case with turned balusters and newel posts. The parlor and dining-r 00m are separated by sliding doors, and each is trimmed with oak. The din- ing-room has an open fireplace built with brick facings and hearth and an oaken mantel. The den is also trimmed with oak and con- tains an open fire- place the same as the dining-room. The kitchen and its de- pendencies are com- plete in their ap- pointments. There are four bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor, and one servants' bed- room and trunk room on the third floor. The bathroom is finished with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickelplated plumbing. The cellar, cemented, is provided with a hot- water system of heating, fuel rooms and storage space. Second J'Looa pLri/si of Concrete Blocks

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