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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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January, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS
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The beautiful terrace-roofed piazza leading from the den and from the living-room at the west end of the house, is one of sterling dignity afford a flood of light to the interior, and although French windows are here combined with others they are all kept harmonious in their proportions and the same in design. The windows of the upper floor form an unbroken line, one of the best ex- amples of successful fenes- tration in a house of this sort which the writer has seen. The loggia and per- gola extend the apparent width of the house, and the roof, with its careful re- straint of line, completes the design of this distinctly indi- vidual and beautiful country- house. The area covered by the house is so ample that all service quarters are arranged upon the two main floors. This makes unnecessary the use of the garret space for service quarters, and this has enabled the architects to de- sign the broad low-pitched roof of unbroken horizontal lines seen from the south front of the house. The roof of the north front of the house is less formal in its plan. The chimneys are well designed and suggest those the traveler in Umbria con- stantly sees throughout the countryside. They are well Detail of the pillars of the spacious placed and give emphasis to the pleasing symmetry of the roof, whose amply broad overhang affords deep soffits, up to which the shuttered windows of the second floor extend. From the portico on the north, one enters the house through a vestibule, coming into a hall. Directly in front, doorways lead to the living- room and to the dining- room, with a doorway to the den directly on the right, and the stairway and entrance to the service-wing upon the left. A good-sized lavatory occupies the space under the stairway, and is reached by a couple of descending steps. The entire plan of the house shows the careful thought given to the matter of utiliz- ing every square foot of space by the architects, who have shown good taste and ingenuity in their task, for, after all, one is not confused by innumerable turnings and twistings and unexpected doors and passageways. The entire plan is what one might term straightforwardly ob- vious and harmoniously sim- ple. The large living-room, occupying the southeast cor- ner of the house, is thoroughly homelike, as a living-room piazza at the north end of the house ought to be, and, like the

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