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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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HY are not country and suburban homes more frequently built of brick? At first thought one might feel like replying that many of them are so built, but a moment's reflection and a mental survey of the suburbs, even the most beautiful, with which he may be familiar will convince him that in only a very few in- stances, comparatively, is the suburban or country home constructed of brick unless the house be much larger and more costly than the average. If the vast majority of our suburban houses are of wood, it is very largely because wood is the cheapest material with which to build. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the initial cost is much less than that of any other build- ing material. This is an age that has encouraged shams— in the striving for the maximum effect at the minimum cost —of building for to-day rather than for to-morrow and of being satisfied with what is attractive and temporarily effec- tive, rather than of striving for what is intrinsically good and will grow more beautiful and consequently more valu- able with the passing of time. In order to obtain rooms of a given number and size and furnishings of a certain sort, so many home-builders have in times past been willing to substitute frame for brick as the material with which to build. Then, too, brick is not more generally used because it is not quite thoroughly understood in America. The country
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ipro in aesthetic aspect with age. The old house of brick invariably possesses a charm peculiar to itself

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v.9(1912)
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  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
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  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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