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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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-ble mantel. The walls are paneled with the wainscot belowand large plain rectangular panels above. The windowshave ornamental frames encasing the curtains which are seagreen in color. The prevailing color of the rugs is greenand the Chippendale chairs are covered with dark green of this description, and has produced a dwelling of genuineinterest. It is a design that combines in a quite remarkabledegree the somewhat contradictory qualities of quiet dignityand real homeliness. The ornamental and festal aspects of aNewport cottage are qualities not to be ignored by the archi-tect who would obtain success in designing houses of thisdescription. These are qualities essential to buildings of thisclass. And these qualities are quite distinctly prominent inthis design. But the monumental character of this residenceis obtained by the use of quiet lines, of simple motifs and bythoroughly restrained treatment. No dwelling of this classcan have, or should have, a character of marked domesticity;
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The Terrace Overlooking the Garden is Paved with Brick and Shaded by an Awning leather. The sideboards are fine examples of Chippendaleand Hipplewhite. Of the material portions of the house—of the kitchensand service-rooms, the bedrooms for the owners and hisguests, the bathrooms, and, lastly, the sleeping-quarters forthe servants, it is unnecessary to speak. Important as allthese rooms and apartments are, they are better classed asthe private parts of the house, with which the public arelittle concerned and of which, indeed, many guests in such ahouse know little or nothing. Here, then, is a very agreeable and charming house, verybeautifully environed in its park-like grounds of two acres.It is a house of quiet and distinguished beauty, designed withuncommon skill, and finished and furnished in a truly de-lightful manner. Mr. Horace Trumbauer, its architect, ofPhiladelphia, has brought to his task unusual ability in work but in this stately design Mr. Knight has been fortunate inob

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