Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (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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^HIS fine Colonial house is one recently com- pleted at Chestnut Hill, Mass., for Ste- phen L. Bartlett, Esq. It stands upon a knoll well back from the roadway, with a winding driveway leading up to the porte- cochere built at the side of the house, while a circular walk coming in at the op- posite side of the estate leads to the front door placed in the center of the building. The main living-porch is built at the rear of the house, and as the descent at the rear of the property is quite sudden, it permits of a widespread vista of the valley below and the entire surrounding coun- try. The principal feature of the exterior of the house is the portico in the center of the front of the building, supported on fluted columns with Ionic capitals. The main building is covered with clapboards throughout, and painted a Colonial yellow, while the portico and the pilasters at the corner of the building, and all the trimmings throughout are painted ivory- white. A feature of the second story is the circular headed windows. The roof is well broken by numer- ous dormers built in at the face line of the building, and between these an ornamental balu^ trade is constructed. The main hall is entered directly from the front por- tico, and extends nearly through the entire depth of the house. The plan of the interior forms a systematic ar- rangement, and the scheme adopted is to give the rooms light from at least two sides, and as a spa- cious effect was de- sired for the inte- rior, much space has been given to the hall. The cen- tral hall opens up through the three
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The portico at the front of the house. Stories of the house, and the staircase ascends with a sweeping balustrade to the second story. The hall is trimmed in a handsome manner with mahogany, and it has a paneled wainscoting and a beamed ceiling. The open- ings at all the angles in the hall have fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals. Opposite the staircase is built the open fireplace, furnished with marble facings and hearth, and a carved mantle. The walls of the hall are covered with Japanese leather in a green effect. To the left of the entrance is the reception-room, which faces the front of the house. The room is oval in form, is stately, and .is treated with yellow, white and green. Its walls are paneled. To the right of the entrance is the morning- room, which is treated in ivory-white. The walls are pan- eled from the fioor to the ceiling, and have a pilaster effect. The pilasters are fluted, and are finished with carved capitals blending into the frieze, which extends around the room. The room is strict- ly Colonial, with a low paneled wains- coting, above which the walls are cov- ered with a crimson velvet. At one end of the room there is an open fireplace furnished with white tile hearth and facings, and a mantel with a pan- eled overmantel. Archways built at either side of the fireplace shorten the length of the room and give it a more uniform ef- fect. The library is trimmed with oak, and it has a paneled wainscoting, ceil- ing, beams, book- cases built in, a bay- window with a win- dow seat, and an open fireplace with blue tile facings and hearth and mantel. The walls above the wainscot- ing are covered with blue burlap. The conservatory

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