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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
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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th front,exposed to the view of all comers, maintains a proper reserveof demeanor, while the south, overlooking as it does themore intimate side of family life, irradiates a pleasantgeniality. From the south the verity of proportion observ-able in the mass is not less satisfying than when seen fromthe north or east. The color of the stone and the textureof the walls are particularly good. On entering through thelow stone porch on thenorth, the feature that mostimpresses one is the wide gal-lery running the length ofthe main part of the buildingthrough the north side of thehouse. At its western endis the stairway and the samegallery arrangement is re-peated upstairs so that thebedrooms, which open fromit, avoid a northern exposureand Winters piercing blastsand look toward the southinstead. The gallery is con-tinued around the westernside of the east wing so thatthe bedrooms in that part ofthe house have an easternexposure. In a country house 50 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1913
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The north front of Fox Hill Farmhouse at Radnor, Pennsylvania on an open hillside this plan is to be commended for sim-plifying the heating problem in Winter. The galleries upstairs and down are light and spaciousand impart a sense of breadth and size to an unusual de-gree. Being attractively furnished, they are excellent alsofrom an artistic point of view. Certain pieces of furniturecan be put there to better advantage than in most otherplaces. On the first floor, at the foot of the stairway apassage sweeps around to the loggia and the library. Atthe eastern end of the gallery a door opens into a passagegiving access to the breakfast-room and the pantry whilealong the side and opposite the entrance are doors to thedrawing-room and the dining-room. The east wing is given over for the most part to pantry,kitchen, coldroom and servants dining-room, only a smallpart at the south end, opening into the dining-room, beingkept for a breakfast-room where the morning sun can comeflooding in fr

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