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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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and beautified it in many ways, but never in any degree destroying its dig- nified old lines or disturbing its atmos- phere of restful old-fashioned ease and circular driveway and a well -kept lawn, and almost hiding the lines of the house is a riot of ivy, wistaria and trumpet vine, climb- ing from ground to chimney top. The ivy is of the fa- miliar hardy Scotch variety, and is the outgrowth of a sin- gle cutting given to *S<L<*Le ft.rH.- quiet. One of the more recent changes made in the charm- ing structure was the complete demolition and subsequent skil- ful restoration of the pagoda-like an- nex on the east side, facing toward the road. The original small building had decayed under the ravages of time and weather until it was beyond all hope of repair, and finally the present occupant called to his aid the well-known architect Mr. William H. Mersereau, of New York, who with consummate art rebuilt, in exact duplication of the original, the east wing as it stands to-day. iTONt WM-L5 BUILT IfeSt rXi; 15RKK w\ai guilt i&jj" ff/Wt. F1R5T 5T0RY PLAN Naturally the most interesting room of the house Irving by Sir Walter Scott, who plucked it from the walls is the genial author's study, an apartment of small size with of Abbotsford. an open fireplace, glass-incased book shelves and walls lined The present owner and occupant of "Sunnyside" is Mr. with prints of literary interest. Here it was that Irving Alexander Duer Irving, a grandnephew of Washington wrote his "Life of Washington," the task upon which he set Irving. Here with his family the present Mr. Irving finds a higher value than all his other efforts, but which the world a charming all-the-year-round home, a retreat filled with has not yet agreed to place before his more fanciful output cheerful memories and perhaps with the amiable shadows in its affections. This literary workshop stands now as the of early American authors and celebrities of other employ- author left it nearly fifty years ago. Two diamond-paned ments. Also the present occupant has added to the structure windows let in the light, and in each window frame is a com-
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The House Is a Charming Example of Pure Dutch Architecture

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