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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (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: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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designed by Mr. C. P. H. Gil-bert, architect, of New York, at Elberon immediately offersto the visitor. The roads limits of the place are defined by chains, fas- tened to posts of interesting design, with two lofty columns atthe driveway, surmounted by globe-lights. To the left is thelodge, a pleasant two-story, flat-roofed structure with wingsof one story. The space between it and the entrance drive-way is filled by a lovely garden of the gayest-blooming flow-ers. On the right is the stable, a structure whose identity isat once proclaimed by its central covered court, but which,being designed in harmony with the other buildings on theproperty, has, save for this feature, little of the outwardcharacteristics of such buildings. Both structures, as well asthe house, are of wood, painted white, with blinds of Indianred. The grounds are beautifully hedged here, and withinthem is the vegetable garden, arranged in blocks and groups,and having a true ornamental character of its own. The land
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The Sunken Garden Lies Below Brick Walls Surmounted with a Handsome Balustrade 446 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1907

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