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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (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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l_ c/o- ^^r//- 1 ^^^^■^^^ f I 1 1 ^^^ ^B^* 1 \ C£co/\/o7Ic 00fz. An end of a bedroom ture. The French window, opening from the dining-room to the piazza, which is used in summer for tea, was built in place of the old wooden door which occupied the same place, and was the original entrance to the house. The change gives the dining-room a bright and cheerful appearance. The kitchen and laundry are furnished with all the best modern fixtures. The woodwork is painted a soft green tone, while the walls are painted a lighter shade. The stairs to the second story rise from the dining-room. The second story contains the owner's room, which is finished in old rose, with furniture of the Empire period. Old rose silk draperies are hung at the windows, while a rug of old rose covers the floor. A door opens into the bathroom, which has a tiled floor and wainscoting, and is furnished with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickelplated plumbing. The bathroom is also reached from the hall, and is within easy access of the guest room on this floor, which is finished with pale gray painted trim and delft blue. Blue silk hang- ings are hung at the windows. There is an old fireplace in the upstairs hall and a deep- shelved window-seat. The servant's room is in the attic, and it is supplied with hot and cold water, which is a very necessary detail when economy of space has to be thought of. The old picket gateway, with its overhanging privet hedge extending in either direction from it, gives a certain amount of privacy to the house, which is quite close to the road. The garden is reached from the main porch of the house. It is simply an old-fashioned flower garden. There are walks through and across it, forming square and oblong beds, in which are a profusion of flowers that bloom throughout the season. Beyond the flower garden, and connecting with it, are the vegetable and kitchen gardens. The old house, with its setting of fine old trees and shrubs, need not be con- sidered as a "back number" on account of age, or as unsuited to readaptation to modern requirements, but it must be of such a character as to warrant the installing of all the con-
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The house was stuccoed and covered with white cement wash

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