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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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NE of the special purposes in building a country house is to secure as far as pos- sible all the available space under as small a roof as requirements demand. The gambrel roof house presents the form by which the smallest area surface of ground may be utilized to the greatest advan- tage, especially when a large number of sleeping rooms are desired. This applies, of course, to the two-and-a-half-story house. The advantage of the gambrel roof over the gable roof is best shown in the fact that a greater height of ceiling is obtained over the same floor space than in a house which is covered with a gable roof, and this is certainly an advantage when the attic of a house is required for extra rooms. The house of Mr. Walter C. Sampson, at Summit, New Jersey (Fig. i), is one type of gambrel roof house where the gambrel starts at the beginning of the second-story floor joists. This is done in order to economize in the space, and the reduction of the height of the house, making it only a two-story house in the outlines of a one-and-a-half-story house. The exterior design of Mr. Sampson's house (Fig. 2), as well as the interior, are very attractive, and are the work of Messrs. Rossiter and Wright, architects, of New York. The color scheme of the exterior is yellow and white. The interior is finished in a simple manner with artistic results. The woodwork is stained a Flemish brown tone and the walls are tinted in soft browns and yellows, which harmonize well with the trim. The living-room (Fig. 3) has an open
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1—Mr. Sampson's house at Summit, New Jersey, presents one style of gambrel roof which is most attractive

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  • bookid:americanhomesgar61909newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:89
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