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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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First floor plan and a strikingly successful example of a country house planned with direct refer- ence to the spot where it is placed. It is an architectural axiom that a house is most completely satisfying when built of some material native to the locality. Obedience to an architectural law is not often as literal as in the case under dis- cussion, for here, built in the heart of the woods, is a home constituted very largely of the same rough gray stone which forms the foundation of the ever- lasting hills spread out upon every side. As one approaches this beautiful home through the grounds which surround the house, it seems to be in a very intimate way an integral part of the country setting. Spread out as it is over a considerable space and, being but two stories high, the house is quaint and rambling and from the long low build- ing which forms the main structure an extensive wing extends at a right angle and adds very materially to the size and un- usual picturesqueness of the house. The first floor walls and the chimneys are of the rough gray stone quarried near by and laid in somewhat the manner of "cobblestones." This very free and informal treatment is made even more inter- esting by the vegetation which in some places still adheres
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The drawing-room

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