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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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Third floor plan
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the hall is the dining-room. The woodwork throughout i s nicely molded in s i m pie, evenly- spaced members, and is treated with a crea m - white paint; with the exception of the doors, the hand-rail and the treads of the staircase, which are of mahogany. Glass doors open from the hall into the living- and the dining-rooms, and are flanked by station- ary glass panels, which serve to broaden the vista and add to the impression of spaciousness. The walls throughout are simply treated in yellow craft cartridge paper, producing a harmonious color scheme. The furniture, which is exclusively of mahogany or rosewood, shows a careful selection from the Colonial and the Chip- pendale models. In addition to these works of art are the rugs, which are Per- sian of neutral richness. These two form the principal decorations ot the rooms. The living-room has a large open fire- place, with a hearth of quarry tile, facings of tapestry brick, and a Colonial mantel. The dining-room is most attractive in its appointments. There is a built-in china cabinet, a beamed ceiling, and a white wainscoting with tapestrv panels. The kitchen, placed as it is in a rear extension, has the full benefit of a cross ventilation. The lights are placed low and at essential points, so as to be of greater service than is usually the case. There are four bedrooms on the sec- ond floor, two of which connect through a dressing-room. Each of the bedrooms is done in a particular color scheme in good taste, the two stairways which ascend from the second to the third The bathrooms are complete in every respect, and are floor—the main staircase and the servants' stairway, the furnished with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickel-plated latter being the means by which the servant's room and bath- First floor plan

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