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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (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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The studio-room is large, light and homelike view of the valley toward the west was finest, and where it would be sheltered from the main high road by some large maple trees, the next consideration was the taking ad- vantage of the peculiarities of the site, planning the house to fit the site chosen. This hillside spot was on a steep slope near the top of a small ledge of rock where a quar- ryman had recently been excavating stone, which suggested to the home- builder the plan of erecting a house having a lower story opening on a level below that of the studio above. This plan worked out very well, as it kept the living-room en- tirely distinct from the studio above and yet covered them both with one roof. The studio floor extends some feet beyond the stone wall of the foundation, which forms the north side of the living-room below, making the studio floor consider- ably wider. The floor space is The owner of "Laurel Lodge" did not have long to look 21x30 feet; the height 17 feet to the peak of the roof. In before finding a bit of pasture land, well supplied with natural springs and large trees, on the rising slope toward the Overlook Mountain, which was bought for a small sum. To eyes accustomed to the shut-in vistas of city streets the price paid may have seemed "fair," but to the new owner of these few acres it seemed ridiculously low for the wide prospect of the hills enfolding this happy valley, affording never-ending sources of pleasure. appearance it is a two-story house viewed from the south side, while from the north side it looks like a one-story bungalow, whose striking features are a big dormer window at the north side and a massive stone chimney on the west- ern end. In immediate surroundings, whose greatest crop till then seemed to be stone, it was not difficult to obtain from the banks of the creek and from the old stonewall fences The second thought in the mind of the builder of this enough "cobbles" to make this chimney almost wholly from studio lodge, once the location had been decided on, was the size and proportion which a good working studio with the necessary living quarters attached should have, espe- cially taking into consideration its summer accommodations, for that was the season in which it was to be most in use. big and little boulders. The pride of the Scotch mason in his work while building it, and his canny remarks on the special lore required to produce a work of art of the sort of which he considered himself alone capable, was worth enduring his trying obstinacy at times. A brick chimney, As the idea of having a large studio for summer work perhaps, would have been far less expensive, but not half dominated the mind of the owner (who made her own plans, so delightful. by the way), as little else as possible was included in the Who ever knew an artist to hesitate to spend on the scheme of space allotment. things that please the eye? Having placed the house (in imagination) just where the Far rather would the artist who made this homelike little ■HHHi mBHMBHiHUHHnHHHHI ■
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These two views of the studio-room chimney corner at "Laurel Lodge" show the possibilities of rough cobbles used for interior building purposes

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