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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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h or English style, and sometimes pre-sented a mixture of both races. Many Dutch culinaryutensils became necessities, such as waffle-irons, as theirdishes found favor on English-American tables. TheDutch kitchen was gradually supplanted by the Eng-lish, and by the middle of the eighteenth century thekitchen of a well-to-do family, of which the Van Cort-landt is a good type, was English in character. The influence of the Dutch in New York homes isnoted by the New England traveler, Madam Knight,who visited New York in 1707, and recordedher impressions. She was interested in theconstruction of the houses, which differedfrom those she was accustomed to in Boston.She particularly noticed the chimney-piecesand the greatuse of tiles.The housewhere thevendue was,she writes,had c h i m-n e y - cornerslike ours, andthey and thehearth werelaid with thefinest tile thatI ever see, andthe staircaseslaid all withwhite tile, whichis ever clean,and so are thewalls of thekitchen, whichhas a brickfloor.
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Kitchen of the Longfellow House at Portland This liningof white tilesshows thatt h e kitchenwas Dutch,and, m o r e- tover, the in-ventories ofthe Dutchi;JW colonists of* New Amster-dam, withtheir enumer-ation of cop-per, brass, earth-enware, china,porcelain, andgreat cupboardsor cases (Kas),show that thetypical Dutchkitchen was any-thing but un-common. Whenthe Dutchkitchen is pan-eled a bed is often concealed in the woodwork,and the kitchen, therefore, serves as a sleeping,sitting, and dining-room, as well as a place forthe preparation of meals. This kind of kitchenmay be seen to-day in Holland; and in NewAmsterdam the kitchens of the Dutch colonists werearranged like those they left at home. A good example of a New Amsterdam living-room of the seventeenth century is that of thewealthy Cornells Steenwyck, who died in 1686. Hiseight-roomed house was very luxuriously furnished.The kitchen chamber, evidently the common fam-ily living-room, contained an oval table covered witha woolen clo

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