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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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The Hall Is Paneled Throughout and Paved with Moravian Tiles phasized above the windows of the first floor by a series of small brackets that support projecting strips of wood, which, when the vines have covered it, will have the effect of a green cornice against the white background. The great porticoes at each end of the house are two stories in height, with a second balcony at the second floor. The columns on the ends are of the Roman Doric type. The intervening space, in the first story, is partly filled with square trellises, between which are spacious openings. Within are Japanese screens. The ceil- ing is of paneled plaster and the floor of brick. In the second story the openings are closed below within orna- mental balustrades in oblong panels: Solid green blinds complete the fixtures here. The portico to the right of the entrance front is open clear through to the garden front; but the other por- tico, while treated in exactly the same ex- terior fashion, is closed on the en- trance front, and, on the other is but a comparatively shallow recess. The immediate foreground to this delightful front is a terrace, floored with hand-made Ameri- can tile of rough texture laid in her- ring-bone pattern. It is raised but three steps above the ground, and is decorated with stone seats and with splen- did vases at each end of the wide steps. Then comes a broad stretch of lawn, bordered on each side by a thickly planted growth of shrubbery and flowers, with bay trees in great square boxes. Further on a slightly lower level is reached, with a single step, and again great stone vases. Be- yond, in the center of the lawn, is a pool, formal in shape, and with a cemented border; then more lawn, more planted shrubbery, and a great outlook over the country beyond.
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