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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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ith Moravian Tiles The Fireplace of the Living-rooiand Lined v nearly flat that one hardly realizes that, after all, the centeris slightly recessed, and the two ends as slightly projected.The change of the surface, in fact, is not more than sufficientto vary the modeling and give texture to what otherwisemight be a rather unduly long wall. It is a two-storiedhouse, with a low, flat, sloping roof, whose eaves constituteits crowning feature. On the left the wall is once moreslightly recessed, and rises above the main roof. On the ex- treme end a lower structure, one story in height on the outerwall, two within against the house, is applied to the mainbuilding, and forms a part of the service wing. The grace-ful curves of its side walls are delightfully drawn, and add areal note of picturesqueness to the whole front. The entrance porch is a simple little portico of two Doriccolumns supporting an entablature, above which is an ironrailing to the upper balcony. The main wall is cut away on
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The Stairs Rise at One End of the Hall and Have a Wrought Iron Railing of Simple Design The Loggia on the Inner Front Has F i;Ceiling; It Is Pa i August, 1907 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 287

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