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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (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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Pi^AH or Third Fi^ooj^ 5—The inglenook is a feature of the dining-room in the Farnham house white enamel trim and with green-striped paper on the walls. The staircase is a handsome one with turned balustrades and mahogany rail. Soft silk curtains of a yellowish green are hung to the windows, over other ones of soft muslin. The living-room (Fig. 6) has a white enamel trim. The walls are covered with Japanese grass cloth of a golden hue. The windows have soft white net lace dra- peries, and in winter a heavier silk drapery of snuff-brown color overhangs the lighter ones of net. The fireplace is buili: of red brick, and the whole is finished with a mantel of Colonial style. The den has a brown-stained trim and Indian wall coverings in bright coloring, bookcases built in at one side and a quaint open fireplace with a mantel. The dining-room (Fig. 5) has a recessed inglenook with an open fireplace built of red brick with the facings and hearth of the same. The mantel is paneled and the shelf is supported on corbel brackets. Seats are placed on either e>c and storage-room and the nursery arc placed in the third floor, while the cellar, which extends under the entire depth of the house, contains the heating apparatus, fuel rooms and cold storage room. Mr. James Purdon, of Boston, Mass., was the architect of this interesting house. When Mr. Farnham decided to build his house (Fig. 4) he also chose the Dutch Colonial style of architecture as its proto- type. Mr. Purdon was also the architect selected by Mr. Farnham to carry out his ideas in the matter and to develop, so far as possible, the particular style chosen. The superstructure of frame is covered on the exterior with matched sheathing and then cedar shingles laid with double courses. A feature of some moment is the living piazza, separated from the entrance porch. The central hall, extending through the entire depth of the house, is treated with

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