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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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3ECOND FLOOR PU\M- 3 — Isolated from the Main House are the Servants Bedrooms andBath on the Second Floor course of construction in thethe country. August, 1906 of the buildings, butthis can be very easilyovercome by givingthe whole structure acoat of cement mortar,or, better still, a coatof pebble dash. Thatthe prices for rein-forced concrete construc-tion work are decreasingwith its more extendeduse in the building ofhouses can not be moreaptly demonstrated thanin the vast number ofhouses to be seen in thesuburban districts throughout
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4—The House, Showing the Roof of Reinforced Concrete. The Kitchen Extension and the Servants Porch are Excellent Features of the House that the hollow spaces keep out all possible dampness and Utility as the keynote for artistic values is shown in the also form good ducts for the running of ventilating flues, simple lines and proportions in concrete houses, which may pipes, and electric wires.Moreover, the blockstend to prevent suddenchange of temperaturewithin the house, mak-ing it cool in summerand more easily to beheated in winter. Hol-low blocks are easilylaid, for they require asmall number of jointsand little mortar. Thereis, of course, some ob-jection to the unevenbreaks in the blocksabout the windows anddoors and at the corners

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