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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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382 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS October, 1908 expanded here, and is carried forward at the center, where it is stopped on each end of a curved projection beyond the porch roof. The terrace throughout is paved with large red brick. The main doorway is simply framed, and has a single torch electrolier on each side in the adjoining wall. The doors are of glass, protected by a wrought iron grille. There is no vestibule, but the space just within the doorway, which is arched beneath the central platform of the staircase, is floored with a vast slab of green marble, laid in borders of white marble. The visitor is thus ushered immediately into the hall, a vast and spacious apartment that completely fills the entire center of the house. The stairs rise on each side of the entrance door, and constitute a monumental feature of The windows have white lace curtains with cloud shades of thin white silk. The carpet is green. The furniture is, for the most part, wicker, in white and green. There are two Roman tables, with carved pedestals of white marble and tops of polished green marble. Directly in the center is a round Roman table of green bronze whose shallow top is a small aquarium, filled with water and containing gold fish. Great ornamental vases stand between the windows and on the opposite side of the room, and are filled with a fine col- lection of palms and other house plants. Two gilt electro- liers depend from the ceiling. The hall is the largest room in the house, and is actually an apartment of monumental size and character. The same scale of spaciousness is carried out elsewhere on this floor,
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The Stairs in the Hall Are a Monumental Feature of Imposing Proportions imposing proportions. The newels are handsome blocks of polished marble, each surmounted with a jardiniere. The stair well has a curved outer wall, the double stairs rising to a platform above the entrance door and completing the ascent in a single flight. The walls here, and in the hall, are finished in imitation Caen stone, cream white in color. The plan arrangement is such that while the stairs are a notable ornament to the hall, they are actually not in it, since the space they occupy is contained in what is in effect an alcove, completely open to the central area, but not consum- ing any part of its floor space. The hall is a superb apartment, very long and wide, and of quite unusual height, so that its immediate impression is one of great spaciousness. It is treated, too, in a large and impressive way, with great panels on the side wall, a single great panel in the ceiling, vast open- ings into the adjoining apartments and windows of grand size opening on to the sea porch, and overlooking the ocean. although the other rooms have less floor area. The great opening on the right admits to the living-room. It is finished in green and white. Directly in face as it is entered, and hence an actual feature of the hall, since it is completely visible from it, is a monumental fireplace. Two gaines uphold a richly carved frieze, above which is the mantel- shelf. The chimney-breast is elaborately paneled, with an ornamental cartouche above. The windows have heavily molded frames, the wall spaces being treated as great panels, which rise immediately above a low baseboard, and which are filled in with green. The fireplace is lined with tan- colored brick, and the hearth is of white tile, on which stand splendid andirons of wrought iron. The ceiling is white, and is treated as one great panel, slightly indicated without moldings, but with a small decorated wreath in each corner. As in the hall, the window curtains are white lace, with white cloud shades. The carpet is green and the furniture of

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