Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (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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Beams embedded in plaster produce here a most happy effect all lend it the charm which pertains to the houses of tropical countries. Its floors are flagstones or red terra- cotta. In winter these are overlaid with rich rugs. Its windows are casements, and many of them are leaded. It is built around a court in which are planted all of the tropical growths that attain perfection in Southern Cali- fornia. The red roofs of Spain, the green shutters and case- ment windows of Italy and Germany, the iron balconies and grills of all continental Europe, are necessary to turn the concrete house into a de- lightful home. Stone-flagged courts, per- golas, well-heads and foun- tains, and concrete garden- walls hung with vines, all lend themselves to the scheme which fits the bunga- low. This unmistakable out- come of our modern Ameri- can architecture may suggest the Spanish adobe of Mex- ico, the stucco farmhouse of Italy, the quaint thatched cottage of Tyrol, the Swiss chalet, or it may look as if it belonged beneath the cherry trees of Japan, and yet remain distinctly and definitely a bungalow.
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A California bungalow of adobe and plaster. The roof is built of red tiles

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