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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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IGHT in the heart of New York, at 39thStreet and Fifth Avenue, an old-fashionedfour-story brownstone house has beentransformed by a new front of quaint Co-lonial design consisting of tiers of latticewindows reaching to the second story. Thepicturesque appearance of the house isfurther enhanced by the charming doorway, having latticewindows on thesides, with a roofcovered with redtiles, which also ex-tends above thelower group ofcasement windows.Geraniums or fernsare kept freshlygrowing in the at-tractive little ivy-covered tubs whichare placed aroundthe doorway. On entering wefind ourselves in along, low hall fur-nished with antiquefurniture. On theright the dooropens into an old-world Colonialkitchen with white-washed rafteredceiling, and in thedistance may beseen an old hand-made brick fireplacewith a Dutch oven,reminding one ofan old New Eng-1 a n d farmhousekitchen. The fire-place is a reproduc-tion of one in theold Van CortlandtMansion. This room is used
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Outside the Home Bureau partly as an office for the Home Bureau, which owes itsexistence to a womans passing illness, a French chef, and atoo rich bowl of soup. At the crucial moment the daughterof the house came to the rescue, and provided temptinglyserved dainties which the doctor claimed had saved the lifeof the patient. The idea presented itself that this was agood field for a woman who needed to support herself, butin the whirl of a gay social life and an approaching marriage the circumstancewas forgotten.Later, without hus-band or fortune,the sickroom inci-dent was brought tomind, and Mrs.Willard decided totake up the onlything in which shewas skilled, themaking of deli-cacies for the sick. Concealing heridentity and decid-ing to build up herbusiness on goodwork alone ratherthan on socialstanding, shegained her reputa-tion by supplyingonly the most care-fully prepared anddainty foods. Whenthe doctors provedhow beneficial thesewere for their pa-tients, they wereglad to speak of h

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