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Title: Lambert's suburban architecture
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Wm A. Lambert
Subjects: house plans -- catalogs domestic architecture designs and plans
Publisher: Wm A. Lambert
Contributing Library: JD Collection

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l contains a handsome platform staircase of ash.It is lighted by a group of three art stained glass windows. The parlor has portiere opening connecting with dining-room ; is furnished with neat Colonial mantel. The kitchen is provided with a range, sink, laundry tubs,and all the usual fixtures. A large pantry is fitted up withdresser, drawers, and closet. There are three chambers on second floor and five goodsized closets. The woodwork in the rooms is pine, finishednatural. The front door is glazed with French glass. Picturemoulding in all the main rooms. The floors throughout are of pine. The entire buildingis sheathed with hemlock boards and paper, and built in athorough and perfect manner. It is heated throughout by a furnace in cellar. There isan easy stairs to attic, where there is space for two goodbedrooms and store-room. The windows are provided with outside blinds. The bathroom is complete with bathtub, washbasin,and improved washout closet. LAMBERTS SUBURBAN ARCHITECTURE. 53
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Design 422- DESCRIPTION ON PAGE 52. (COPYRIGHTED. I 54 LAMBERTS SUBURBAN ARCHITECTURE. Design No. 175 is a photographic view of a house thathas been built in several New Jersey towns. It was theaim, in designing this building, to make a convenient,economical, and artistic house, suitable for a suburban homefor a family of moderate means. The building is particularly attractive, has many pleasing* features, and has proved to be one of the most popularhouses of the kind ever designed, several having been builtat Rutherford, Avondale, Passaic, Nutley, and GreatNotch, N. J., and, with some slight alterations, in othersuburban towns. It is a roomy, convenient, and handsomehouse, at a very moderate cost. There is a good cellarunder the entire building, with walls built of rock-facedquarry stone, carried to sill on corner bay, which gives avery pretty and substantial effect. The first story is clapboarded ; second story, gables androofs are shingled. Hall is lighted by large window, andhas a

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