Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar00newy (find matches)
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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border, and shaded from the afternoon sun on its west side by a fine grove of native chestnuts, and leaving the south view uninterrupted. Below the main central terrace is a formal garden with pergolas, and a sun-dial. The original planning of the house is the result of a care- ful study of conditions and adaptation to its unique site. All the principal rooms are planned to have a southerly exposure, and most of these, also, have windows on opposite sides, giv- ing ideal cross ventilation and light. The main portion of the first story of the house is con- structed of stone which is roughly squared from boulders
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The Porch and Its Balcony with Boxes Filled with Red Geraniums Give a Note of Brilliant Color to the Rear Side of the House point of land in the neighborhood, with steep declivities on every side, and having a superb viewT, principally from the south side of the house, and especially from the living-porch and terrace. The natural approach to the knoll, on which the house is built, is from the north, and, in consequence, the main en- trance is placed on the north side of the house, leaving the south side for the terrace and forecourt, which is an import- ant and beautiful part of the whole scheme. This terrace, which is formed by grading the south end of the knoll, is a simple and carefully kept lawn edged by a perennial flower selected from the site itself, and which are beautiful in their warm variety of color effect, for they seem to be of an ancient glacial moraine, as the geological formation of this particu- lar locality seems to demonstrate. The porch has columns built of similar stone, over which is placed a balcony with flower boxes filled with red geraniums, which add a tinge of color with good effect. The remainder of the first story is covered with stucco. The upper portion of the building is of half-timber con- struction; the stucco being toned to a warm gray instead of having the cold color of Portland cement. The timber work

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