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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (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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252 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1908
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M The Walls of the Dining-room Have a Covering of Red Tapestry Up to the Plate Rack with a Hand-painted English Tapestry Frieze garden as a part of the building by retaining it within the terrace walls. A broad roadway leads from the entrance gates through the grounds with a gentle rise to the entrance terrace, which is about forty feet above the ground at this point. The entrance to the house is marked with a broad porte cochere, the upper portion being supported on Colonial Doric columns, which rest on rough stone foundations. Leaving the veranda, the visitor enters the house through a large vestibule, the walls of which are lined with Spanish leather, bronzed and formed into panels with heavy iron flat-head nails. The floor is red Flemish tile and the ceiling is painted a dark parchment color. The woodwork is dark Flemish o-ak. From the vestibule one passes under the staircase into a broad Colonial hall, from which opens a large living-room and the dining-room. The hall contains a wide Colonial staircase with deep landing and seat at the second story. The woodwork of the hall is painted cream-white. The large Colonial doors and the stair railing and balustrade are mahogany. Opposite the stair end of the hall large case- ment windows lead to the veranda. The walls are covered with a heavy dark green paper on which an ornamental frieze containing the family crest is painted in oil. The ceiling is painted cream-white. The living-room is also Colonial in style, and is divided by columns and pilasters to form a library end to the room. This end contains a large fireplace and bookcases. The fire- place is paneled to the ceiling; facings and hearths are of ochre mottled unglazed tile. The woodwork of this room is cream-white, and the walls are covered with a light brown Japanese leather paper. The Colonial furniture is in har- mony with the. room, and expensive Oriental rugs adorn the floor. From this room a large arched opening leads into the sun- parlor, three sides of which are formed by casement sash to the floor. On the other wall the idea of the casement win- dows is cleverly carried out with mirrors, formed into small panes to match the casements, which reflect the palms and plants. The walls between the windows are painted to rep- resent an outdoor scene. The dining-room contains a bracketed plate shelf and white enameled woodwork. The heavy carved black oak furniture in this room harmonizes well with the red tapestry below the plate shelf and the hand-painted English tapestry frieze. Red coloring predominates in the large Oriental rug. A high grouped window, containing light tinted leaded glass, forms an attractive feature over the low sideboard at one end of the room. The billiard-room, or den, is entered from the dining- room. This room is designed in the Dutch period, with high oak wainscot and deep paneled jambs at the windows, which contain wide seats. Secret closets are let into the wainscot on

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