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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A Gentle Rolling Country Lies below the Terrace cabinets. The por- traits are family portraits, and in two of the corners are marble busts of d i s t i n guished Thayers. The ser- vice and kitchen wing adjoins the dining - room and is fitted up with every possible con- venience. The upper floors of the house, as in all houses, are given up to bed- rooms and bath- rooms. All of these are arranged with exquisite taste and with dis- tinctive furnish- ings. One room is entirely furnished with old furniture and includes a number of pieces of the greatest interest. Mrs. Thayer's room has walls of French gray, with panels with white mouldings. The curtains are of pink damask. The rug is pink, and the furniture is white and gray. The landscape treatment of the grounds immediately ad- jacent to the house is still in process of development, but enough has already been completed to indicate the very ex- tensive and unusual nature of the plans proposed. The gar- den front is immediately surrounded with a low terrace con-
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A Formal Garden is Laid Out within the Terrace Immediately Adjoining the House

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