American homes and gardens (1905) (14595809698)

Identifier: americanhomr03newy (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: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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spacious lawn to themain doorway with its splendid doors of bronze. The plant-ing of this front has been somewhat simple and yet it is quitesufficient. Groups of lofty evergreens stand at the corners forming an outdoor lounging-room. The brick floor is laidin simple geometrical patterns. The plan of the house is quite well expressed by the dis-position of its exterior. A hall runs through the center to theterrace overlooking the garden. On the right is the dining-room and on the left is the drawing-room. Beyond the draw-ing-room is the card room and in the left wing are apartmentsfor bachelor guests. Beyond the dining-room is the pantry,and in the right wing is the kitchen and servants dining-hall. The entrance hall is treated in cream white plaster through-out. The floor and stairs are of white marble. The wallshave a paneled wainscot; above them the surface in alter-nately large and narrow panels, the former being perfectlyplain within the enclosing molding, while in the latter the
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The Floor and Stairs of the Entrance Hall are of White Marble. The Walls are Paneled in Plaster of the outer pavilions, while trees of lesser growth are plantednear them. The ground on either side is somewhat raisedabove the central level which forms a shallow place, whilethe house is thus, as it were, placed on a grassed terrace. Thisheightens and emphasizes the central steps, which are but-tressed on each side by pleasant groups of evergreens. The garden front looks upon a spacious flower gardenwhich occupies the center of the space immediately beyond thehouse and which, like the center of the entrance front, is sev-eral steps below the beautifully kept lawn that surrounds thehouse on all sides. It is a sunken formal garden, with pathsradiating from a central flower bed, and surrounded, on allsides, by a brilliant bordering of flowers. An elevated ter-race adjoins the house here and is covered with an awning. whole surface is delicately decorated. The doors havemolded frames with de