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Identifier: americanestatesg00ferr (find matches)
Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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hich Moorish tiles are inserted. A half-timber effect is introduced on the stairsand in the reception-room by filling the lower panels with tapestry. The ceiling is in dullgold. The dining-room is to the right of the hall, and like the reception-room and hall istrimmed with quartered white oak, stained a dark brown. Above a low base are panels inoak, filled in with burlap studded with nails. The walls above are covered with burlap, deco-rated with a grape design. The panels of the ceiling are light brown. Beyond is the kitchen,partly occupying a wing beyond the main building. The living-room is on the opposite sideof the hall. The woodwork is stained a dark green. There is a heavy beam ceiling, and thewalls are covered with burlap of a gray-green tone. The plaster panels of the ceiling are alsotinted green. The facing of the fireplace is green and blue glass mosaic, with touches of purple;above it is a picture built in, and specially painted to harmonize with the colors of the mantel.
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A BEDROOM. (230) AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS Mill-Brook, the House of F. King Wainwright, Esq., at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mill-Brook, Mr. F. King Wainwrights house, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is builton one of the green hillsides which abound in the environs of Philadelphia. The site is sunny,but the house is a quite poetic conception, very admirably carried out. Local field stone formsthe fabric of the first story; above, the walls are in half-timber work, the plaster remainingin its natural soft gray color. The shingled roof is stained a dark moss green. A roundarchway, under a simple shed-like roof, serves as the entrance. It opens from an open court,formed by the mainbuilding and by thekitchen wing which pro-jects at right anglesfrom it. The quaintchimney of the latter isquite a marked feature.The plan is some-what irregular, althoughnot at all wanting inconvenience nor in logi-cal arrangement. Theentrance doorway leadsdirectly into a lobby,from which the hall isentered from o

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