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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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d Trees Shade the River Front of the House ■ November, 1907 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 415 gateway one enters the court in front of the house. The impres-sion at once obtained of the mansion is its generous proportionsand its elongated effect. It is a large central building, threestories in height, surmounted by a hipped roof, relieved by a rowof dormer windows. Colonnades, extending in either directionfrom the main building, connect with wings, one containing thekitchen and service rooms and the other the loggia and theballroom. The house was built in a most substantial manner, and in thosedays when honest workmanship was preferred to shoddy display.It is constructed of red brick, which have grown old with age, har-monizing well with the black of the steep slated roof, that blendsinto the deep green of the superb tulip poplars which sweep the of hammered iron in which the arms of the Byrdfamily are interwoven, but are almost lost in theluxuriant growth of vines which overhang them.
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The House Is Built of Red Brick which Has Mellowed with Age roofs and shield the broad facade from too inquisitivea view from the river below the house. There is a closely clipped lawn, which is inclosed withina red brick wall, broken on either side by gateways, pro-vided with square brick pillars and ornamental iron gates.The avenues from the boat landings end in smaller gates The picturesque entrance ways which are placed at eitherside of the house are reached by a series of three-sided stonesteps. The entrance doorway from the roadway has a stormvestibule, inclosed with glass, with Corinthian pilasters and aclassic pediment. The doorway of the river front of thehouse has similar pilasters and capitals, its pediment being 4-i6 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS November, 1907 handsomely carved, using the pine apple as the symbol ofhospitality. Both entrance ways open into the elaboratelycarved and paneled hall, which is about fourteen feet wideand extends through the depth of the house. The

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