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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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om enough, as the fam- to heighten the artistic effect, for the little porch has a crook ily increased, and so a third house was added. This has in it as it bends itself around the hill. settled down at the end of the little row, as if it had always The long traveler, which used to turn the mill top in been there. It contains three large bedrooms, and is used the long ago, and the four flappers which have also finished principally in the case of an overflow of guests. their active work and are now enjoying a well-earned rest, The way in which these three separate buildings are com- give to the whole an unusual touch of picturesqueness.bined to form a unified and pleasing whole, is well worthy of It was not without careful study that these three buildings study. The lines are excellent. The odd high peak of the are all left in gray tones. By this I mean the soft gray that house, which is in reality a copy of the Old House in Med- comes to buildings with time and weather, giving them an
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The grouping of the old mill and the cottages is unusually picturesque June, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 209 appearance of age that ismost attractive. As the vineswhich have been plantedaround them climbed up overthe buildings, adding theirbit of color to it all, thehouses themselves seemed tosink more easily against thesoft green of the quiet hill-side. It is hard even now totell the old from the new, soexcellently have they blendedin color and they form thecharmingly natural impres-sion of growth and gradualaddition which is so difficultto gain in modern building. Mr. Rothery, who was thearchitect of his own building, has just reason to be proud of the Windmill house,he has adapted the practical with the artistic in such as to make not only the mostconvenient of Summer dwell-ings, but the most picturesqueand unique group of build-ings to be found along theshores of Cape Cod. The utilization of thiswindmill gives a most inter-esting side to the fact that ithas more or less reinfo

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