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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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232 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1912
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Bedroom with its antique furniture No early Massachusetts home was really complete with- out the vast chimney, which was often the chief feature of the house. The climate of New England includes much weather which is exceedingly cold and the fireplace was therefore a detail of the first importance. There, too, the settlers had come from a country where the fireside stood for the symbol of home life and where the "roof-tree" spirit was much stronger than in countries where life is lived more largely out-of-doors. All this had a certain Dining-room retaining old chimney effect upon the building of their homes, and a study of these old farmhouses would almost lead one to the belief that the home was really built about the chimney as a kind of shelter to the numerous fireplaces which it almost invari- ably contained. Mr. Hall's country home possesses all the characteristics of its type—the earnest and severe style which was a fitting expression of the life of the times. The roof is broad and plain and the eaves are cropped closely to the body of the

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