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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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above it. Interest- ing as this frontis- piece is one will not linger unduly before it, for it naturally suggests an inter- esting interior. The rectangular hall is of comparatively modest dimensions, and is intended to serve only as an en- tranceway and as a means of communi- cation to the other rooms. The walls are paneled in white throughout. At each end are pilasters, forming a recess on the right, while on the left the space is occupied by a boxed staircase and by a passage that con- ducts to the service rooms. The floor is laid with red Mo- ravian tiles, with wide white mortar joints. The furniture is Italian. The plan of the house is so obvious that its chief features may be discerned from this point of vantage. Im- mediately in face is the drawing-room, which occupies the whole of the inner center of the house. To the right, beyond the alcove and beneath the pilasters, is the library, with the den on the entrance front. To the left is the dining-room, with the butler's pantry and kitchen on the entrance front, and the servants' hall and laundry in a wing beyond the main house lines. The drawing-room, library and dining- Japanese Screens and Paintings Constitute the Wall Decorations of the Drawing-room
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French Furniture of the Various Louis Periods Is Used in the Drawing-room

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