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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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172 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1908
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A Bungalow for Two ; Mr. C. W. Parker's Summer Home at Marblehead Neck and has a floor of white tiles, sloping toward the center, to allow the water to run oft through the outlet which is provided. The walls and ceiling are painted with white en- amel. Bathroom, passage, kitchen and china closet are all situated two feet below the level of the living-room. The kitchen is completely equipped. The heating apparatus is a ship stove, which connects with the boiler to supply abundant hot water. This house cost twenty-five hundred dollars. A similar bungalow could easily be built for fifteen hundred by using less expensive materials. The estimates are as follows: Cellar $100.00 Lumber 750.00 Carpenter work 675.00 Plumbing 300.00 Painting 100.00 Electric wiring 300.00 Chimneys 175.00 im/ - n Hardware 100.00 /JUt-^ s:0-c >*, * *»•■< $2,500.00 Mr. John Hays Hammond's bun- galow at Lookout Hill, Gloucester, Mass., was intended by his eldest son, Mr. Harris Hammond, for the use of himself, his brothers, and their guests. His ideas were successfully carried out by the architects, Wheelright & Haven, and in laying the plans the four primary objects borne in mind were comfort, attractiveness, economy of main- tenance, and harmony with the surroundings. The setting of this bungalow is extremely picturesque, as it is built upon a rocky promontory, at a height of forty feet above the water. At the western end, and at the south side of the house, are fine trees—birch, pine, oak and ash. On the north side, and at the front, which faces the east, the building overlooks the harbor of Gloucester, and commands a magnificent view of that quaint old city, as well as of East- ern Point and the sea beyond. The bungalow is approached from its western end by a woodland path, through whose thick-set trees may be caught glimpses of the water below. Its low, hipped roof, covered with weather-stained shingles, and the great chimney of rough gray fieldstone, at the base of which is planted a

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