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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (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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tanding on the threshold you pause for a moment be-tween the present and the past, and glimpse back of you theold apple orchard at the side of the house and the grayroad winding to the dunes near the sea. Before you is thetiny entry, its narrow winding stairs leading up to JohnHowards own little room beneath the stars, where throughthe open window of a Summer night, drifts in the captivat-ing odor of lilacs and apple blossoms, mingled with thescent of the sea. Once within, a hundred or more years fall away. Hereno suggestion of modern life intrudes itself. So com-pelling is the illusion that at a sound on the stairs, youturn expectantly, thinking to see the winsome-faced ladstep over the threshold. No one appears, yet you feel heis there in spirit, treading with you the well-worn boardsand living over again the days that are past. An interesting example of early Colonial architecture isHome, Sweet Home by which name the Payne house isknown in Easthampton; built in a period when a huge
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The sitting-room in the Home Sweet Home house Copyright by G. H. Buek. 234 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS J^y. i9J3

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  • bookid:americanhomesga101913newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:416
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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