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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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owners suite of one bedroomand bath, and two guest rooms and bath. This floor is treatedwith white enameled trim, plastered walls covered with artis- been erected a concrete house, which is in many respects apioneer in fireproof residence construction. With walls andpartitions of hollow concrete blocks, floors and roof of rein-forced concrete, it was the first building of this character tobe constructed in New York City. There have been a num-ber of reinforced concrete buildings erected in this city, andsome in which concrete blocks are used as a facing, but thisis believed to be the first in which hollow concrete blockswere used as supporting walls. The New York BuildingCode is very strict upon the subject of concrete blocks, be-lieving that there is such a chance to make poor blocks, orblocks without a sufficient quantity of cement, that it is wTiserto condemn them all at the start than to permit them to beused in such a manner as to jeopardize the use of them forbuilding purposes.
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-The Living-Room has White Enameled Paneled Walls, and a Fireplace Fitted with an Old Colonial Mantel Removed from the Eighteenth Century House Which Stood Upon the Site of the Present House tic wall papers and open fireplaces. The bathrooms havetiled wainscotings and porcelain fixtures and exposed nickel-plated plumbing. The wing over the kitchen extension contains two servantsbedrooms and bath, with a rear hall and stairway to thefirst story. The cellar contains the heating apparatus, fuel rooms, coldstorage, etc. Architecturally, the building is designed to meet living re-quirements, and its particular beauty rests in the simple,straightforward fulfilment of its purpose. Strong, sub-stantial construction, inexpensive with no hint of cheapness,and, above all, supreme usefulness, is the keynote of thewhole. In the building of Mr. W. J. Steels house at New Dorp,Staten Island, N. Y., as shown in Figs. 12 and 14, there has The requirements which such blocks must meet are un-usually seve

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