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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (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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Fig. 29—Lattice work is of the decorative feature hall. This is a very attractive house outside and quite con- venient within. It will be noticed that there are also some rooms on the third floor. Those who go in for picturesqueness will perhaps be taken with the house shown in Figs. 14, 15 and 16. Here the roof does all sorts of things. There is a great deal of ig- -The porches are the features of this house In Figs. 17, 18 and 19, however, we have a Spanish idea of a home. This is a somewhat complete establishment. On the first floor we have dining-room, kitchen, and so on, together with a small corner room and a reception hall at the very front; but there is nothing of the nature of a parlor or living-room. The small room, or den, is ten by ten
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Fig. 31—First floor plan Fig. 32—Second floor plan Fig. 33—Third floor plan porch, as may be seen by consulting the view and the plan feet and is located at the corner, seen in full in the view, of the first floor. As one enters the house, he finds a side The reception hall has the same depth, ten feet. On the hall, which affords access on the right to the living-room second floor there are two small bedrooms, bath and sepa- and the dining-room. On the second floor are four bed- rate stairway. These are all cut off from the rest of the rooms and two baths. Still other rooms are on the third second floor. The main portion consists of a fine_balcony, floor. The general style of this house is German. a library, and a "grand salon." This grand salon is sixteen

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