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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (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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house are of native stone. A penthouse runs round the building at the level of the second floor and above that the walls are rough cast, giving altogether a very pleasing as- pect to the exterior. Another $5,500 house provides on its first floor a hall opening by an archway into a living-room sixteen and a half feet by thirteen, back of this a dining-room of the same measurements, a pantry, a kitchen eleven feet by four- teen and a laundry. Up- stairs there are three large bedrooms with a goodly al- lowance of closet space and a bathroom, while the attic has two bedrooms and a loft, floored but not ceiled, one of those delightful places where one can stow all sorts of odds and ends to be rummaged among on rainy days with the drops patter- ing a monotonous tune on the shingles overhead. This house also has rubble walls for the first floor and rough cast for all above that. In both these houses of course everything has been Second floor plan kept down fcQ ±(, lowest pQS. sible figure but nothing has been skimped. Embellishments of any kind have been omitted but all necessities have been carefully considered. Honestly and staunchly built, judi- ciously planned and designed with an eye to architectural propriety, these dwellings have proved signally satisfactory (Continued on page 190)
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This stone and stucco house was erected at a complete cost not exceeding $7,000

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