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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: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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neat fireplacein the corner near the entrance. The fireplace itself is built ofconcrete, in which are set some small boulders taken from aneighboring hill. In the hearth are set three rounded,polished brass disks, and around the edge of the hearth, con-tinuing up the sides and across the fireplace, is a narrow,quivering band of clear glass mosaic. cases, in which are stored rare volumes of the worlds classics,the poets, the histories, and, in fact, a collection of bookssuch as is rarely found in a country home. The cases areall stained a very dark antique oak, and the furniture is madeto match. The ceiling overhead is crossed by heavy beams ofdark oak, springing from broad corbels on the sides. On theface of each corbel is painted in clear colors a reproduction ofbook-marks or coats of arms of the worlds famous pub-lishers. There is a broad seat on front of the generoussouthern window, and here is hung a glass mosaic in tonesof deep green and blue, representing a stately old-fashioned
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The Dining-Room Has a Green Striped Wall Covering, Mahogany Furniture and a Banjo Clock Above the mantel-shelf is a broad, simple panel of floweredmahogany, dark and rich in tone, serving in the backgroundfor the bust of Donatellos inscrutable, unknown lady, restingon a soft ivory-toned bracket in the center of the mahoganypanel. The fireplace opening is carried very high, but filledin from the top down part way with a simple grille ofwrought iron, in which are set small panes of transparentmica, so that the eye can follow the flames from the fire clearup to the throat of the chimney. The doors leading fromthe hall are all of crotch-veneer mahogany, of most beautifulflowered grain in single piece, without paneling or molding. At the right of the hall is the library, representing theowners inner convictions and containing his choicest treas-ures. The walls are lined from floor to ceiling with book- galleon sailing over the ocean, with the inscription aroundthe outside of the picture pa

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