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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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;R. ROCHE'S residence at Brantwood, Short Hills, N. J., is an interesting type of the modern suburban house, designed in the English style. It is constructed of stone, shingles and half-timber work. The first story of the house is built of rock-faced graystone, while the second story is of frame construction, the exterior of which is covered with white cedar shingles stained a soft gray color. The trim- mings are painted dark bottle-green. The gables forming the third story of the house are beamed, forming panels, which are filled in with stucco work. The beams are also painted dark bottle-green. The roof is shingled and stained a soft gray color. A circular serpentine roadway winds up to the porte- cochere from which the entrance to the house is made. The unique feature of the house is the great hall with its series of columns, from which spring arches, producing a groined- ceiling effect. The woodwork is finished in dark Flemish brown. The walls have a" paneled wainscoting extending around the hall at a height of six feet and on a line with the intersection of the spring of the arches. Ihe walls above the wainscoting are treated with a brownish-yellow wall covering, blending well with the soft brown tone of the woodwork. From the reception-hall a broad French window opens on to the living-porch, semicircular in form, which is fur- nished in a most comfortable manner, and is where the family life centers on a warm summer's day. Broad steps lead from the living-porch to the formal garden at the rear of the estate, which is formed by a series of terraces. To the right of the entrance is the living-room, extending che entire depth of the house. It is trimmed with oak and finished in black. The walls are covered with a two-tone green-striped wall-paper. Opposite the entrance to the living-room is a broad open fireplace built of Tiffany brick with the facings and hearth laid with the same, and the whole finished with a mantel of excellent design. The ceil- ing is beamed, forming panels which are tinted a lighter shade of green than the side walls.
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The garden front of the house, showing the terrace slopmg to the pond at the highway

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