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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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March, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 89 shed. Beyond is the spacious carriage house, behind which, and connected with it, is the stable, both departments being amply fitted with the best of modern devices. A large court beyond is partly inclosed on two sides by var- ious farm buildings: wagon barn, sheep shed, wood shed, tool house and chicken houses. Continuing further up the hill .from the stable one passes the gardener's cot- tage and the mammoth con- servatories. A little further on is the ice-house, half con- cealed underground, and still beyond is a rustic summer house built over a well of pure water. x\t the very apex of the estate is a casino, a quaint stucco building, with pergola- like porches on either side. Within is a single large room, with a fireplace in an inglenook, on one side of which is a toilet-room, and on the other a pantry. The building is entirely inclosed with French windows, so that when opened the main room calls for so exhausting a word, is well worth the effort. The and the piazzas constitute a single apartment. view, as is the case with all views from the highlands of the The climb to this delightful spot, if indeed the exertion Hudson, is alike majestic and enchanting. To the east are
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The main stairway occupies one end of the living hall

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