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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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View of the living-room building. Walls are covered with clapboards painted white, and windows are hung with blinds painted green and are filled with small panes of glass, dictated, no doubt, by the difficulty and expense of securing larger panes rather than by the desire for the picturesqueness of effect which we so highly value to-day. One strongly suspects that the "eye- brow" window set in the roof and the broad veranda across the front of the house and around one end may be recent additions and concessions to modern demands, but so true lew study a regard has been held for consistency of design and the general fitness of things that they heighten, if possible, the old-fashioned quaintness of the building. The chief entrance to the house is through a wide and hospitable doorway with "side-lights" in true New England style. The tiny hallway just within, with the narrow stair- way, which, with many turns, leads to the floor above, is also characteristic of a farmhouse of the time and was made necessary, no doubt, by the fact that the huge "stack" chim-
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The sun-room, which is a glazed piazza, contains a fine fireplace

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