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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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2 I —The entrance, with low arch protecting the door, is suited for summer and winter uses 22—The house is well placed and lies close to the ground especially good, indicating a feeling for concrete design in which economies of construction call for broad surfaces and concentrated window space. The hall, den and dining-room (Fig. 4) are finished in Flemish oak, with a rough wall cov- ering of two tones in cream. The living-room woodwork is in ivory-white, and the two-tone striped wall covering makes a good foil to the fireplace (Fig. 5) facings in green Grueby tile and the Dutch hood of hammered brass. For the house (Figs. 6 and 7) at Winchester, Mass., owned by Dr. Clarence E. Ordway, the architect, Mr. Robert Coit, has obtained a pleasant variation from the usual suburban square house. The low arches of veranda and porch have the lines of the true reinforced concrete arch. and harmonize well with the general proportions and the slope of the roof. Here the exterior is a plain gray, the roof of dull greenish brown shingles. The hall (Fig. 8) is finished in mahogany, with a dado of green Japanese grass cloth, and a medallion wall paper of two tones in green. The same mahogany finish is combined in the living-room (Fig. 9), with a red birch fireplace and carved panel above the mantel. The wall covering is golden-brown Japanese grass cloth. The dining-room (Fig. 10) is also in ma- hogany, with a wall of tapestry effect up to the plate rack, above which a Japanese cloth of a golden-brown tone ex- tends to the beamed ceiling. The library is also in mahogany. Although in the photograph the house does not appear to
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23 A green-gray wall with woodwork of oak of soft brown finish is the treatment of the living-room 24—The fireplace is the feature of the library, with its Moravian tile facing

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