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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
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HE village of Mayfair, just outside of the city of Chicago, is most fortunate in hav- ing two men as enterprising as Messrs. Sorensen & Olson, who have laid out several squares of land and have planned and built an interesting group of houses, some of which are illustrated in this paper. How best to make the settlement beautiful has been a subject of careful consideration. One of the rules of the village is that the front line and the division lines of each of the properties shall be divided only by a closely clipped hedge of privet. Every encouragement is given by the promoters to the land-owners to maintain the proper keeping of their home grounds, so that the beauty of each street, which has been so earnestly sought, may be attained. There are no monotonous and depressing rows of brick and mortar in this group of little dwellings, but dainty in- dividual houses are there, which, in time, will be covered with growing vines, thereby enhancing and creating a more effective appearance than at present obtains. A feature of peculiar interest is that only one floor plan has been used in the construction of these little dwellings, the point of distinction of each of the houses being found in the use which has been made of the various kinds of materials em- ployed in their construction. This is due not so much, however, to the great variety of materials which has been
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A brick and stucco house, cost $3,400 A cement stucco house, cost $3,350

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v.8(1911)
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  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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