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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
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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really wonderful writing deskthough the other, called theDutch room is verylovely, too. It haspainted furniture,from Holland,showing quaintDutch scenes andmaidens with redcheeks and woodenshoes, and has somefine old Delft pot-tery. Mr. Otis, anenthusiast for allbeauty, has a par-ticular love for fineold pottery andchina, as this Delft,and the fine collec-tion of Staffordshirechina in the dining-room, will show. Of course, Mr. Otisadded a porch. Whatis home to-day with-out a big veranda?And the garden thathe dreamed of cameinto being, too, andstretches now in frontof the house, downto the water, so thatone looks out at theSound across a massof old time flowers. And so TheHomestead had re-newed its youth. A 288 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1913
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iining-room new house? Yes, practically. And yet an old one, too.For the spirit of the old place broods over the new, thebig red chimney, around whose capacious mouth swallowsstill swing and circle as they did two hundred years ago, isstill the heart of the place, the traditions have been kept,and the history of the place carefully collected. Even the name is the same. For, as The Homesteadthe old place has been known many many years. The Homestead it has been for generations who havebeen born and reared there and gone out into the world,some of them never to come back till they were brought Old corner cupboard to the little old family burying ground which lies but a fewrods from the house, and is carefully, reverently kept to-day. For the owners love for the place has been en-hanced by the fact that many of its people were his people,too, the old house having belonged for years to a branchof his family. How very readily it will be seen from this presentationthat the old Homestead is

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