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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (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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(HERE are few areas of suburban develop- ment that have been more successfully realized than those within the confines of Bayside-Flushing, L. I. No finer setting for a definite improvement of a great tract of land could be found than in this beautiful region. The very charm of the surrounding country was itself an incentive for the building up of one of the most delightful properties. The condi- tions and advantages of Bayside, as portrayed herewith, are not merely that of a single ideal community, but a existent, semi-rural abiding place, which is in close prox- imity to our leading American cities. The paramount thought of most of the urban dwellers of to-day is to live in the country, and in settlements where there are good sanitary sewer systems and water supplies, good schools and churches, and every appointment that makes country life a pleas- ure and a comfort. The fondness for the country has become characteristic of the American people, and is not a sudden fancy, but a well defined growth which has slowly devel- oped. The congestion of our largest cities with the necessarily increased rentals is one of the rea- sons which has produced this movement.' One of the prime factors, which ha§^proved so strong an inducement for mi- grating from the city to the country, is the provision of suburban ■ properties in which are installed all the best modern improvements and conveniences, such as are to be found in the most complete city home. The illustrations presented in this article are representa- tive of the best tvpes of houses built at Bayside. There are some hundred houses on the property, many of which have been erected by the present own- ers ; those built by the com- pany have been constructed to meet the requirements of as- sured purchasers. All of the houses are thoroughly equipped with -hot water, heating apparatus, sani- tary plumbing, electric lighting, electric bells, telephone,
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Fig. I—The classic porch at the front of the house and every modern convenience, and are constructed of the best materials, and in the most thorough manner. The residence of Mrs. E. A. Norcross, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, is, perhaps, one of the most attractive dwellings in the group. The exterior of the house is designed with that repose which is always so delightful in a house of this character. It is a moderate-sized, two and a half story building, nearly rectangular in shape, with a latticed porch on either side and a large dormer on the back slope of the roof, which extends down and forms a protection for the piazza built at the rear of the house. The exterior walls of the building are covered with rived shingles, which are white-washed in order to give them an antique effect. The roof is shingled and stained a deep reddish brown color. A brick walk, edged with a privet hedge, leads from the roadway to the classic porch built at the front of the house. This porch has fluted columns with Ionic capitals. A one-panel door, copied from Douglas Manor, with a leaded glass window on either side, completes the entrance. A central-hall extends through the house to the rear porch, from which broad vistas of the garden with its box- bordered beds can be ob- tained. The Colonial staircase in the hall is of graceful line, and has painted balusters and a mahogany rail. The trim throughout the interior is painted a delicate shade of ivory white enamel, which blends well with the stained and polished floors of oak and the color schemes of the wall decoration. The living-room, to the left of the entrance, is provided with an open fireplace fur- nished with a Colonial mantel made after one in the historic Pepperell House in Massachusetts. The walls from the bottom to the top seem to have the resemblance of wood pan- eling of the Georgian period, but, as a matter of fact, they are of smooth plaster with picture mold- ing placed on the walF in such a form as to present the effect of paneling. The dining-room, occupying the oppo- site side of the house, is also provided with an open

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