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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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iHERE are few more delightful localities than the hills of Wenham. If Mr. Burnham has not chosen the most beautiful hill site of this beautiful region for his home, he has at least been fortunate enough to have se- lected one so beautiful that one may well doubt if it has its equal. The road winds in gentle ascents until the summit is reached. All along there have been delightful side-looks into pleasant woods and across broad waters of Wenham Lake. The latter disappears from view presently, but, when the summit has been reached, lies far below one, in full view of the house, to which, quite naturally, it gives its name. The road leads into an open forecourt; at the entrance and the opposite end is a high latticed trellis, the one beyond shielding the kitchen entrance; to the left is the house; to the right a privet hedge, beyond which, at some distance, is the stable, itself a picturesque structure, with its own foreyard and a square tower. In the center is an oval plot of grass, with a bed of shrubbery. The house, being located on a lofty hill—so lofty, indeed, as to seem to have no rival—is a natural landmark in the landscape for many miles around. It needs, therefore, no great height to emphasize it, and hence its architects, Messrs. Winslow, Wetherill (sic) and Bigelow, of Boston, have designed it as a long, low structure, two stories in height, with a low, sloping roof, whose simple dormers proclaim the fact that it is ample enough to house a third story. It is designed in the simplest possible manner, being a plain rectangular build- ing of light gray stucco, the wood trim being throughout painted white, and the shutters pea green. The roof is shingled and left to weather finish. The ornamental and decorative features are limited to the porches. At the cen- ter of the entrance front is a portico, two stories in height, with a pediment above the eaves supported on four Doric columns, a portico quite Greek in feeling and admirably
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A Semicircular Porch, Surmounted by a Great Bay Window, Is the Feature of the North Front

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