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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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ntry is a network of rivers and streams.Besides the numberless inland waters there are the coastlines with the indentations and bays, suitable for house-boatmoorings. There are certain things to bear in mind when picking outan anchorage, wherever it may be. Be sure that it is per-fectlv sheltered from every quarter, anchor as near the shore entirely new; that is, the scows were specially built to takethe house, which insures a tight and clean hull. Taking anold scow or hull and building a house on it is a questionableoperation, for the converted hulls are generally leaky andfrequently are infested with vermin. The building of anentirely new boat may mean a greater outlay at first, butshe will be far more satisfactory and in the long run the costfor repairs will be less. Hostess, the smallest of the quartet, was designed forhis own use by Mr. Charles D. Mower, a well-known navalarchitect practicing in New York City. She was built atCollege Point, L. I., under the designers supervision.
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The Divan Provides Extra Sleeping Accomodation for a Guest as you can, and still avoid mosquitoes and noises from shoreresorts or other objectionable places. A mushroom anchor(shaped as its name indicates) and a chain cable are alwaysgood investments. If they are large enough they afford thebest sort of insurance, and on stormy nights one need neversit up and worry and wonder if the boat is dragging. To give a full and practical idea of the immobile house-boat, I have selected four craft, all of which are built withina short distance of New York City. These boats have beentaken not alone because they are representative craft of theirtype, but because they were built where labor and materialare higher than elsewhere in this country, and boats that canbe built for the figures mentioned in this locality could beconstructed for less money elsewhere. All four boats were Hostess was intended for a bachelors quarters afloat, andwhile Mr. Mower has lived alone on the boat for the pastthree se

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