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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, 191 2 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS
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The country home of G. M. Pinney, Esq., at Dongan Hills, New York The Pinney house is one of the most attractive homes on Staten Island and dignified result which belongs to a country home of room, living- and dining-rooms and kitchen below, and four this size. bedrooms and bath on the floor above, and the garret pro- The interesting house of John W. Charlton, Esq., Bronx- vides rooms for the maids. In this house, as in most su- ville. New York, planned by O. J. Gette, architect, is an burban and country homes now being built, the architect has adaptation of a farmhouse motif and suggests certain affiliations with what is known as the Pennsylvania Dutch style of architecture, particularly the broad "hood" which is carried across the windows of the lower floor, the paneled wooden shutters and the dor- mers, wTith their graceful arrange- ment of window panes. The house occupies a site in rugged, hilly coun- try, where rocks and boulders are often pushed up through the soil. Such boulders are often covered with Ivy or Creeping Phlox, but here a very simple treatment proves inter- esting and appropriate. The house is placed against a background of fine old trees and is of frame, excepting part of the first story, which is of stone. Perhaps the most interesting single feature of the exterior is the

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