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Identifier: outing15newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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b house is divided practicallyinto two buildings : the club house properfronting on Halstead street and the tennisbuilding that extends back and faces onRailroad avenue. The location is mostconvenient, it being almost the geograph-ical centre of the Oranges and not ahundred yards distant from the BrickChurch station of the Morris and EssexRailroad. The entrance to the house isacross a low wide piazza extending along in metals. The ceiling is in plastic work,with border of bronze in mosaic lines. Inthe assembly room, with its wide fireplace, with a welcome blazing fire in win-ter, is the heavy oak mantel on which areplaced various club trophies. The sidewalls are stippled in plastic work of pleas-ing cedar hue. The frieze has a designof a flowering vine in bronze and oldgold. Mosaic designs in delic-ate tintsare used in the ceiling, the border ofwhich is in blue and pink shades. Thewalls of the main stairway leading fromthis room are of the same shade of cedar. 128 OUTING FOR NOVEMBER.
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BENJAMIN W. FRANKLIN. with mosaic border in bronze and gold.In the ladies reception room the wallsare covered with heavy English paper ofdelicate green with graceful vine design.The frieze is of rich flowered paper, andthe ceiling is mosaic in character in greenand buff shades. An open fireplace andoak mantel break one corner of thisroom. The furniture of these rooms isof oak, that of the reception room beingupholstered in deep red plush. The largeiDilliard room has a broad dado of Japan--ese leather heavily embossed in peacockblue and gold. A broad oak chair railrunning around the room is above this,and there the walls are covered with am-ber-colored cartridge paper. A mosaicborder and variegated bronze lines breaktip the walls. The groundwork of theceiling is in an olive buff, with frescoingof light peacock blue. The character-istics of the side walls in border andpaneling are carried out in the ceilingin harmonious colorings. This roomis supplied with one pool table, threeBrunswick

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