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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
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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the austere White Mountains standing grandly out against the sky at the western horizon. In its original form the house was of two stories with a pitch roof. Possibly it was then more picturesque than now, but in 18 15 a third story was added for the sake of extra room. A slight difference in the color of the bricks outlines, even to-day, the line of this "improvement." In- side, fortunately, the original appearance of the rooms has been carefully preserved. All the windows have fine paneled wooden shutters, and some of those at the back of the house
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Copyriglit, 1902, by Lanison Studio The Old Wadsworth-Longfellow House For our present purpose, however, the house is the thing. —that house whose atmosphere of old-time hospitalitY is felt by every person who sets foot inside the front door and faces the broad stairway of the deep hall. This hall runs through the center of the builtling anil, in the old days, com- manded at the lower end a delightful garden. 1 hough it is now in the heart of a busy city the house when built was on the outskirts of the town. All about then were rolling green fields, with the ocean dimly discernible in one direction and even retain the old casements with their many panes of glass Fhe doors, too, keep the "box latches" of yore and in all the rooms on the ground floor there are very wide window- seats—thanks to the exceeding thickness of the original walls. This last named item in the house's construction occa- sioned considerable vexation to General Peleg Wadsworth when he was building his mansion away back in 1785. Port- land had never before erected a brick house and no bricks suitable for the purpose were to be had nearer than Philadel-

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