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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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98 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1912
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Here one sees pictured an interesting chalet type of Summer cottage, delightfully situated on the edge of the picturesque shore of the Maine coast mitted the slabs coming clear to the ground and covering the unsightly spaces below the sills, so often seen under cot- tages supported by piers or posts. More for effect under the gable than for utility, the roof rafters were covered with three-inch strapping, to which the shingles were nailed. Inside, the plan is simplicity itself. It comprises a small low-beamed living- and din- ing-room and inglenook com- bined, a bedroom and a kitchen. The living-room is one step below these other rooms, and has a shelf at the height of a platerail appear- ing and disappearing be- tween the heavy posts and wall openings. The windows here are small-pane case- ments and swing outward. A tiny flight of stairs leaves the inglenook for the chamber overhead. Opposite it is a built-in couch with book- shelves handy, and between, the firebreast boasts a large metal hood, across which is beaten in, with a nail-set, the legend, Sic Habitat Felicitas. The face of the fireplace has the butts ing hit-and-miss across the different Head £*o r<?A

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