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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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342 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS October, 19 12
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Much may be learned from a study of early examples of American brick houses. Here one sees the exquisite example of a doorway thor- oughly well suited to the material of the facades. The brick house that is properly set in the midst of surrounding trees forms an attrac- tive note in any landscape —the variety is fascinating, for if we except Gothic, which is to a great extent a style adapted only for buildings of stone and which in any case is rarely if ever used for do- mestic architecture, there is no style of building which can- not be suitably interpreted in brick and for which precedent and tradition do not offer examples. The Italian style which just now is so deservedly popular is more frequently and perhaps more properly developed in brick than in any- thing else. The English and German domestic types find their most beautiful expression in cottages of brick, and the very words suggest pictures of time-worn, ivy-covered houses of half timber which are beautiful, not in spite of their age, but because of it, and usually these cottages are of brick of some of the many kinds which the old builders under-

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  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
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