Identifier: americanhomr03newy (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: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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a keen artistic sensibility. I have already adverted to the fact that the exigencies ofthe site determined a narrow house, very much longer thanwide. The entrance doorway leads into a small vestibule,flanked on one side by a lavatory and on the other by acloset. Immediately beyond is the hall, occupying almostthe center of the house, and extending through to the ter- I he arrangement of the second floor is equally simple.The owners bedroom and boudoir are in the center on theterrace front, the boudoir and chief bedroom being lightedby the bay windows which are thrown out below the centralgables. At the extreme end, over the library, are two guest-rooms. On the right of the central hall is a seain^-roo-nand study, and the remainder of the space is filled with bath-rooms, of which there are three, and rooms for the servants. The spacious hall into which the visitor is ushered im-mediately from the vestibule, is a beautiful and cheerfulapartment. The woodwork is walnut, the walls covered
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French Gray is the Prevailing Color of the Dining-Room race front. The entrance is quite to one end, the delightfulsymmetry which characterizes the exterior being evidentwithin as well as without. On the terrace front the hallgives upon a porch and a sun room, both of which imme-diately adjoin the terrace. The stairs are built against theentrance wall, as the large, round, arched window has pre-viously hinted. Beyond, to the left, is the library, occupyingthe whole of the further end of the house, and at the endof which is the capacious chimney which is so marked a fea-ture of the exterior. On the right is the dining-room, open-ing onto the terrace front, while the butlers closet abutsagainst the entrance wall, as does the kitchen, whch is nextto it. On the entrance front is the servants hall and a coldroom. with silk tapestry, and the plastered ceiling is finished witha handsome geometrical design. The mantel is paneled andcarved with festoons. The large window on the stairs isfilled

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