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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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ndis furnished withporcelain fixturesand exposed plumb-ing. The house costfive thousand fivehundred dollarscomplete, and wasdesigned by Mr. C.Schubert, architect,of Dyker Heights. A Concrete Block House on Staten Island The blocks ofwhich the mainwalls of this house,which was built byMr. James W.Hughes, were con-structed were madein a Normandin ma-chine, a small shedsupplying the neces-sary shelter for theblocks until hard-ened enough to bepiled in the yard,where they werekeptwet for about tendays. While theblocks were hard en-ough to be laid inthe wall in twoweeks, it was possi-ble to make enoughin advance so thatthe majority werenearer a month oldbefore moving themfrom the yard.Three sizes of blocks were used, 12 inch for the basement, 8 inch for the wallsand 6 inch for the interior partition walls. The blocks weremade of Atlas Portland cement and coarse sand, in the pro-portion of one of cement to four of sand. The walls werelaid up in a cement mortar. These blocks are easily laid,
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)-AHc Built for they require a small number of joints and little mortar.There is, of course, some objection to the uneven breaks inthe blocks about the windows and doors and at the cornersof the building, but this is very easily overcome, as in thepresent case, by giving the whole structure a coat of cementmortar finished with a pebble dash. There have been quite a few houses built with solid re-inforced concretewalls, but this hol-low block construc-tion has an ad-vantage over theformer, for the rea-son that the hollowspaces keep out allpossible dampnessand also form goodducts for the run-ning of ventilatingflues, pipes and elec-tric wires. The exteriorwalls are tinted acream yellow, whilethe sashes and thesmooth spaces aboutthe windows arepainted white. Theblinds are paintedbottle green, andthe roof is coveredwith shinglesstained a mossgreen. The planspractically reproducean earlier house.The hall is trimmedwith oak, and it hasan ornamental stair-case with turnedbalusters and newelp

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