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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
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February, 1908 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 71
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The Walls of the Living-room Have a Gray and Brown Covering, and a Trim Finished in Forest Green in plan, charmingly ar- ranged within, and endowed with all the true qualities of a home. Like many suc- cessful houses, its success is largely due to the exceed- ingly fortunate manner in which house and environ- ment are blended. And this is precisely as it should be. It is for the ob- taining of exactly this re- sult that architects are em- ployed and care taken in the designing of structures. Yet even when quite sufficient care is taken in the design of a house, the home quality, the livableness, as it were, is too often absent. Mr. Graham's house shows this in a very marked manner. His house has achieved, therefore, a measure of suc- cess that does not always attend the building of dwel- lings of this size. Mr. William A. Bates, of New York, was the architect. a private stairway from the kitchen. The owner's suite contains a large open fire- place, with brick facings and hearth, and a mantel, and the two rooms of which this suite consists are connected by a dressing-room, pro- vided with a large ward- robe and a lavatory. Ample storage space is found in the attic, which is an open one. The cellar contains the furnace room, fuel room, storeroom and serv- ants' toilet. There is a splendid opportunity for a laundry or kitchen in the cellar, and there is also a fine space for a bowling alley, which could be easily built in along the rear wall and extending along the en- tire depth of the house. We have, then, a subur- ban house, quite ample in size and yet of real modesty in design and form. It is a house beautifully adapted to its somewhat difficult site, thoroughly convenient

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