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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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d two hundred years ago, isstill the heart of the place, the traditions have been kept,and the history of the place carefully collected. Even the name is the same. For, as The Homesteadthe old place has been known many many years. The Homestead it has been for generations who havebeen born and reared there and gone out into the world,some of them never to come back till they were brought Old corner cupboard to the little old family burying ground which lies but a fewrods from the house, and is carefully, reverently kept to-day. For the owners love for the place has been en-hanced by the fact that many of its people were his people,too, the old house having belonged for years to a branchof his family. How very readily it will be seen from this presentationthat the old Homestead is a perfect patriarch among Amer-ican houses, and richly deserves the fame that has cometo it as a relic of the past as well as a masterpiece of thepresent, an improvement to its time as the old one to its day.
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A cellar has been made beneath this kitchen, which had none when built 250 years ago August, *9l3 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 289

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