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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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e second floor level and supported for fear of bumping your head against the sloping walls or by the substantial rounded arches that form the porch. In ceiling is not a cause of much joy anyhow. At all events, this gabled wing isthe aforementionedbed-chamber. By thisdevice several endsare served. In thefirst place more spaceis gained in the sec-ond floor, then nextit agreeably relievesthe rectangularity ofthe exterior and last-ly—this is, perhaps,its best feature—itkeeps the porch with-in the structural linesof mass and com-pletely does awaywith the disfigure-ment due to thetacked-on, lean-tocontrivance unfor-tunately appended toa good many houses.Another excellentfeature of this cot-tage is its unbrokenroof. Its whole ex-panse spreads outunmarred by fussy,restless dormers.Consequently the cot-tage has the same re-poseful aspect wenote so frequently inEnglish countryhouses, where theskyline merges intothe environment al-most imperceptibly,which it could not doif it were punctuated
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Entrance porch of Krisheim Cottage and story above Krisheim Cottage ismeant to have twofloors and an air-space and no more. On the other hand,an unobstructed gar-ret, lighted at thegable ends, is anideal place to stowaway all manner ofthings in, things thatare needed time andagain, but for whichordinarily space canill be spared. Fur-thermore, it may beseriously questionedwhether we do notoften waste space onthe first floor by notusing it all to live inand then distort ourhouses by trying toexpand unnecessarilyabove stairs. Although the cot-tage is rectangular inplan, its mass hasgreater variety thanis usual in a house ofthat description. Thiselement of variety isgained partly by thegabled projection inwhich is the porchdownstairs and a bed-room above, partlyby the gables abovesome of the upperwindows and partlyby the well-shaped January, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 17 chimney standing out from the eastern wall.The metal device on the face of the chim-ney is a true lovers knot, in

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