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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (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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set of Spanish Chippendale, purchased from an old Spanish family in Charles- ton, S. C, and numbering twelve chairs and two settles, such as are shown in the illustrations. These pieces are of mahogany mounted with gold. The two sideboards, the china closet and the sidetable are also of mahogany, and are genuine antiques. The butler's pantry is fitted complete with drawers, dressers and cupboards. From the pantry a door opens into the kitchen, which is provided with all the best modern conveniences to be found in the service part of well-regulated house. The laundry 5ECOMD FLOOH PLAN floors and wainscotings and porcelain fixtures, with exposed nickelplated plumbing. The extension contains the servants' quarters, consisting of four bedrooms and bathroom. There are extra guest rooms on the third floor, and the cemented cellar contains a furnace room, fuel room, cold- storage room and vegetable cellar. There has been much planting done about the house, and the garden at the rear of the house, which is reached from the ter- race, is interesting, for it has some formal characteristics, including its pergola, tea house and walks bordered by annuals and perennials, shrubs and plants. The great brick wall dividing the bowling green from the natural
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The roadway terminating into a circle forms tfie approach to the house is thoroughly well-equipped and up-to-date in every re- spect, and the servants is an excellent adjunct. The rear hall and the staircase form an access to the cellar and to the second story. This hall contains a large well-fitted closet for stores. From the front staircase hall a coat room and toilet- room is reached. The second story is divided into four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Each of the bed- rooms has a fireplace, white- enameled trim, and walls treated in one particular color scheme for each room. The bathrooms are furnished with tiled

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