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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (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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262 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1908 whole of the lower story in the central wall. It is a great open porch, completely within the limits of the house lines, with a central opening emphasized with external columns and a broken curved pediment, strengthened within by a group of pilasters. A single column in the center of each adjoining space supports the extension of the entablature and the whole is closed with pilasters at each end. The inner space is walled throughout with limestone, and is fitted up and furnished as an outdoor sitting-room. Just without it is the terrace, a long and spacious platform, extending wholly across the entire front, and reaching beyond with flat arches of brick with keystones of limestone. The lower angles of the end pavilions are also built up in stone, but above the first story they are without emphasis. The thickening of the center of the wall has already been men- tioned, and it only remains to add that the window here is incased within a large and ornamental frame of stone. A string course of brick separates the two stories in the end pavilions, and except for the loggia the walls are without other horizontal projections until the fine cornice is reached at the summit. Above is the roof, with segmentally arched dormers of a design similar to those of the entrance front.
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