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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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AND GARDENS 399
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:'b£co/vo/Zbo&. Fig. 16—The second-floor plan of the Rogers' house Fig. I 7—Reception-room with Sheraton furniture There is a large open hall and a sewing-room separated by an archway, with columns, as well as three bedrooms and two bathrooms on this floor. The owner's room has a private bathroom and an open fireplace. The bathrooms have tiled floors and wainscoting, and they are furnished with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickelplated plumbing. A private stairway leads to the third floor, which contains the servants' rooms and bath; besides an extra guest-room and trunk-room. The heating-apparatus, fuel-rooms, laun- dry and cold storage-room are placed in the cellar, which is built under the entire house. Much planting of shrubs and plants has been done about the front entrance, screening many of the hard corners. The houses described and illustrated in this article are of good construction, well-planned, and of good architec- tural design. They may not, perhaps, illustrate a definite tendency in any one direction, but they unmistakably indicate, express and typify the current tendency towards excellence. They deserve attentive study and will well repay every atten- tion that may be given to them.

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