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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (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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February, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 41
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The drawing-room, the piazza and the dining-room of the house of the Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, at Garden City, Long Island, New York room a small conservatory opens out upon a broad terrace, bedrooms are particularly attractive by reason of their size which terrace leads down a flight of steps to the out- and the irregularity which the quaint planning of the house buildings. To the right of j —— 1 makes possible to give them. the hall a triangular space 1.. ..i This house is especially in- gives entrance to the dining- teresting as a modern type of room, which is diagonal to 1 h j), 111,1,, ■ ,■ ■ ■ jt~\ domestic architecture by rea- the living-room wing of the _;( tJ,'L ^Qj a g flfelZJ. -1 ;-;• l ZZ\., ■ son or its having been built house, as also are the service _.„ IrJTTN^...;JVS^T)^'S?.!lll:l,^H«l'Nfllf'J M ill upon a somewhat difficult quarters that complete the L Jr ^~li ~~;. jX) Itkl • '""^1 site, and yet made thoroughly dining-room wing. " ^~; '^" ^^ .c£f '* " ^jiij charming without any conces- An inspection of the ac- J ^ "'" sion to exigencies which have companying plans will show Nfai^pli IPifa^rJr11 curbed the free hand of the with what ingenuity this room architect in designing the has been worked out, for the "— - •■---•/■~:--^ ■' plans for the house, whole wing containing it is ;.ir—~a i -^ \ ir—^a ■ The house of the Hon. diagonal to the other half of ■BMbW^tI ifajL^C (j. 'limi\,!l»l i^-^^y:^ Urn Timothy L. Woodruff, at the house. The dining-room BezzzT; ; —II 15 if Jin """'" ?X PI ^ Garden City, Long Island, as has been worked out as an if—^^7 ^H;l -*"~ . LL„..- '- llj-m ^^ r Li jjf planned by Augustus N. octagon, four sides of which fa-.J M (ii ^^ i^j™^^™P-'"""""'lN-l^Hp"prnnnrpp Allen, architect, New York, have windows that face the P^-LllTU;1 i;■ ^^j!"^ - iff presents the solution of an road and the entrance, or else B^KJffl^^iJ±Fi£ii:::p entirely different suburban the terrace and the out-build- iM^fafrgTx:,.Jti;.".Jii problem, inasmuch as the ings beyond and below this. ' ' country at Garden City is al- The upper floor of the Bis- Plans of the house of the Hon- Timothy L. Woodruff, at Garden City most flat jan(j xhis' house land house contains three family bedrooms, with large bath- is surrounded by grounds so ample that the place might rooms, and bedrooms in the service quarters. The family almost be called a country estate. In style the architecture

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