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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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he enclosed yard arranged below.The terrace or inner front of the house displays quitedifferent characteristics from those which obtain on the en-trance front. The latter front being directly on the levelwith the ground, necessarily seems low. The terrace front,on the contrary, is loftily elevated, owing to the steep slopeof the ground. The symmetry which Mr. Eyre discarded onthe entrance front is more apparent here. The whole ofthe center is occupied by a great stone terrace, with a double flight of steps by which the lower ground may be reached.The central part of the house is here projected forward,and is surmounted with twin gables. Immediately belowthem, in the center of the design, are two bay windows, andthe other openings are symmetrically disposed. It is acharmingly imagined design, carried out with the quietsimplicity which distinguishes every part of the house, adwelling without extraneous ornament, and without a singleornamental feature on the exterior which has not a true
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The Terrace is a Lounging Place of Distinctive Charm July, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 17 structural function. In other words, it is pure building, acircumstance perhaps not so meritorious in itself as the related and more important fact that every part of this purebuilding has been carefully studied and adjusted to the otherparts with 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-ro

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