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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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ntrance,high sandstone piers capped with standing lions and support-ing a wrought-iron arch carrying a central lantern: a stately,handsome entrance, as effective as it is simple. The road within approaches the house by broad curves,for the elevation is considerable, and a somewhat lengthydetour has been necessary to accomplish an easy ascent. Onthe left the hillside is thickly overgrown with wild shrubbery;on the right are open fields, with the farmhouse and barn—a massive, rough cast structure—quite down in the hollow.The roadbed is fine, with young trees growing on the outeredge, and at frequent intervals are rustic posts carryingwrought-iron lanterns, square in form, and as ornamental byday as they are useful by night. Farther on, but at some dis-tance below, the road overlooks the vegetable garden. Thenthe shrubbery on the left gives way to open land, and thehouse, which hitherto has been completely hidden, comes intoview. A broad field contains a flock of sheep and the plant-
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The Main Hall Is Flanked with Aisles, in One of Which Is the Fireplace with a Mantel of Carved Stone

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