Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar11905newy (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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HE house built for Charles F. Droste, Esq., at Montclair, N. J., is designed in the English style that was contemporaneous with our Colonial period. The first story and two gables are built of selected common brick, laid Flemish bond in red mortar, with raked-out joints and the headers projecting one-half inch beyond the plane of the stretchers. The semicircular stair- case tower is built of frame covered with expanded metal lath and then rough plaster, the whole of which is crowned with a copper finial. The sills, coping and floors of the vesti- bule and piazza, as well as all the steps, are of artificial stone of a light gray color. The remainder of the house is built of frame, covered with ship-lapped hemlock boards, building
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The Terrace Ste ps paper and red cedar shingles, the latter stained red, except the small roof, which is stained a moss green. The trim is painted white. The central hall of the first story is trimmed with white- wood painted a cream white, except the doors, which are stained and finished in mahogany with rubbed-down varnish. The rails and treads of the stairs are of birch finished the same as the doors. Around the hall is a wooden cornice, be- hind which the electric lights are concealed. The diffusion of light from this arrangement is very effective. Back of the hall, and separated from it by fluted Roman columns, is the reception-room, which is treated the same as the hall. The walls are hung with a green paper. To the right of the hall is the living-room, the walls of which are paneled with broad battens of quartered oak to the height of the doors and windows, the spaces being filled in with olive green burlap. The space above the plate-rack, which extends around the room, and the ceiling are tinted a pale green. The angle between the side walls and the ceil- ing is paneled with two moldings. The walls of the ingle-nook are entirely covered with small-faced brick of a soft brown tone in a combination with the buff brick mantel. Bookcases are built in at one end of the room, at one side of which there is a door opening into the private porch. The woodwork in this room is stained a dark brown and is finished in oil. The dining-room is trimmed with whitewood stained a Flemish brown. The walls are covered with tapestry up to the height of the door cas- ings, and the whole is fin- ished with a plate-rack. The tone of the tapestry is blue, green and brown, and the walls above the plate-rack and the ceiling are tinted a light brown. The mantel is of special design, and contains a china cabinet, while the facings and hearth are of brick. . The butler's pantry is trimmed with cypress and finished with spar varnish, and contains a sink, china closet, cupboard and drawers. The kitchen is treated in a similar man- ner, and has an imitation tile wainscoting four feet in height, and is furnished with all the best modern appliances. The second floor contains five bed- rooms, one dressing-room and two bathrooms. The entire trim of these rooms is of whitewood painted cream white. The bath- rooms have tiled wainscotings and floor, and are furnished with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickelplated plumbing. The floors throughout the first and second stories are double, the upper one being of hardwood. There are three bedrooms and a servants' bathroom on the third floor, besides ample storage spaces. The cellar contains the laundry, heating apparatus, fuel room, cold storage, etc. The house is heated by steam, indirect on first floor and direct for the balance of the house. The lighting is by gas and electricity. The house is a pictur- esque structure picturesquely placed in a site admirably suited to it. Mr. Albert F. Norris, architect, 150 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.

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