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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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11 The second floor plan of Mr. Mebus' house shows a servant's room separate from the rest of the dwelling monolithic rein- forced concrete construction is not the only one in which concrete can profitably be used. Hollow tile, of con- crete or clay, is in- deed to-day very largely used in those larger houses for in- t e r i o r partitions, and they are coming largely into use for exterior walls of small houses. In fact, it might be
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12—The restful and simple house of Mr. Charles F. Mebus at Glenside, Pennsylvania, shows off charmingly against a background of trees of laborers, the charges for inspec- tion and engineering, design, etc., will be nearly the same as for a large house. Thus the apparent paradox may be easily sus- tained, that the owner can not afford to build a large house anything but fireproof, while he can hardly afford to build his small house entirely fire- proof. But c e r t ai n 1 y

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