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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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The den is paneled in oak mantel has facings, lining and hearth of red brick, and brass andirons and fender. The window-curtains are in silk ap- plique in rich tones of browns and gold. The dining-room is on the opposite side of the great hall. Its general treatment is similar to that of the library. That is to say, the walls are paneled to the ceiling, which has a decorated oval within an ornamental frame. The mantel is Caen stone, and the fireplace has elaborately designed andirons of wrought iron. The room is, however, intensely individual in treatment and in design, and is in no sense a repetition of the library. The winciow-curtains are of figured green silk damask, and the antique furniture has seats of dark green leather. The sidelights are of silver, and in two corners are great silver altar-lights. A superb piece of Chinese silk embroidery is hung against one of the walls. The breakfast-room occupies one of the pavilions of the entrance front. It has a low wainscot of wood, painted white, as in the other woodwork of the room. Above, the walls are hung with a light green paper in two tones. The mantel is wood with red brick facings, lining and hearth; the fireplace has brass andirons. The curtains are green and blue silk and the chairs are the old-fashioned rush-bottom kind. The sidelights are bronze. The chief external feature of the estate is the Italian garden. This lies directly before the entrance door, on the farther side of the road by which the house is reached. It is entirely enclosed within a wall, built of Harvard brick, and without ornamental features of any sort save the plain piers at the entrance, with their simple caps of stone. The coping of the wall elsewhere is of brick. The entrance is effected by means of a low flight of marble steps, the en- closing piers of. which have sloping marble slabs. At the base are two seated lions holding upright shields. It is extremely simple, but immensely effective. The garden within has been arranged with fine taste. In a general sense it is cruciform in plan, and consists of a center running directly out from the entrance and two wings or transepts, applied to the middle of each side. The chief ornamentel features are confined to the center, which is finished with semicircular ends, front and back. At the farthest end the vista is closed with a semicircular pergola, of white Ionic columns with rafters stained brown. This is raised above the general level by several marble steps and has a floor of Welsh tile. In the center of the garden Is an octagonal basin, in the
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The dining-room has a distinct individuality of its own

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