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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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etimes it was in a separate building, and over itwere the servants rooms. This is made perfectlyclear by the advertisements of houses for sale. Forinstance, in 1754, a dwelling-house on Pearl Street istwo stories high and has two rooms on a floor with akitchen back. Another in the same year is built ofbrick and stone, had three rooms on a floor, seven fire-places, and a good kitchen. In 1761, Mr. ThomasDuncans house in the Broad-Way is two roomsdeep and has a good cellar and a cellar kitchenunderneath. Another arrangement occurs in the house of PeterJacob Marius, a Dutch merchant who lived on PearlStreet. He added a large kitchen to the side of thehouse in 1700, with cellars below and rooms for theservants above. Mr. Abraham Lodge, a lawyer, had, in 17^0, a twostory brick house with basement. The dining-room was onthe first floor, and was handsomely furnished with mahoganyand blue china. The kitchen was in the basement, in thefront, while the cellar, wine cellar, and general storeroom
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were in the back of the basement. The housede Peyster built in 1695 in Pearl Street hada two-story extension, appropriated to theKitchens are often mentioned in advertisemen that Abraham the kitchen in negro slaves. ts. The news- i44 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1907 papers in 1767 stated that Edward Smith owned a beautifulcountry-seat about a mile from New York. The dwelling-house contained five rooms, four of which have fireplaces,with a good oven in the kitchen; and, in 1760, JosephBownes house in Flushing was described as a large dwellingfurnished with nine rooms, five of which have fireplaceswith a large kitchen adjoining to the same. Among the cooking articles advertised in the New Yorknewspapers from 1750 to 1765 are coffee mills, wafelirons, corkscrews, bread baskets, sugar cleavers, polishedcopper chafing-dishes, baskets for plates and baskets forknives, copper tin kitchens with stands, and japanned plate-warmers, very necessary in this frigid climate. The plate-warmer,

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