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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (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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A Glimpse of the Living-room Through the Hall and each of the other chambers is provided with ample closet space, fitted with shelves, hooks, and clothes poles. The principal rooms of the lower story have floor and trim of red oak stained a soft green, finished with wax. The walls are covered with plain ingrain papers, except those of the living-room, which has a frieze of Oriental tapestry paper. The fireplace in this room is faced with imglazed Mercer tiles having great variety and harmony of color. The second story rooms have floors and trim of stained The Hall and Den, as Seen from the Living-room Southern pine, finished with wax. Heat is provided by a superior warm-air furnace, ancl the house is hghted with electricity. The house is thoroughly well built and finished in every respect, the intention being not to build as cheaply as possible, but to consider real economy in maintenance. The total cost, including heating, plumbing, electric wiring and fixtures, kitchen range, and window and door screens, was nearly six thousand dollars.
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The Dutch Colonial Is the Prototype of Mr. Phelp's Home, Which Is Built on a Hill Overlooking the Cayuga Lake and Surrounding Country

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