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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)
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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F ONE of the principal characteristics of a most progressive and flourishing city of any locality in this country lies in its ar- tistic and livable homes, then evidently Minneapolis may lay claim to the distinc- tion of such possessions. Minneapolis of the Middle-West is certainly a "City of Beautiful Homes," built on a broad scale, without any attempt or pretense to be more elegant than the requirements that a refined and cultured people demand. The houses illustrated in this series are representative of a few of the best types of moderate cost that have recently been constructd in that city. While built in the city limits, they might be called either suburban or country houses, for the reason that any one of them is adapted to be built in any locality, the only differ- ence being in the amount of land which surrounds each one of them, whether it be simply a suburban plot, or a country acreage. The houses of the Middle-West differ from the Eastern only so far as the materials which are used for their building are concerned. Although the latter frequently show more timber in their construction, the concrete and plaster buildings are becoming more common in the East, while the clapboarded house, which was formerly so fre- quently seen in that district, is practically unknown in the important cities of the West. There is a distinctive charm about the English half- timbered house, and the one treated in that style and illus- trated in Figs. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and built for J. F. At- wood, Esq., is not the exception to the rule, for the exterior is most pleasing and artistic. The house is constructed of red brick to the level of the window sills of the first story, while the remainder of the building is covered with beams stained a Van Dyke brown and forming panels which are filled in with cream colored stucco. The roof is covered with shingles and stained red. The interior finish of the lower floor is severely plain. The entrance to the house is direct with the living-room, which is trimmed with English
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Fig. 1—The residence of J. F. Atwood, Esq., is built of brick and half-timber work

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