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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
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The gardener's cottage space of the lower porch is enclosed and forms a part of the service rooms; but the upper porch is here iden- tical with that on the west. The angles between these porches and the corners of the main front are occupied by terraces, floored with white marble, and enclosed with balustrades. The colonnade is not only the chief feature of the entrance front, but is the chief ornamental feature of the whole exterior. The doorway in the center has a narrow window on each side, and is enclosed with a magnificent wrought iron grille, glazed within; there are wrought iron lanterns here, held out on sturdy arms of the same material. The awnings are green and white, and above is a loggia- like treatment, of an elliptical arch supported on Roman Doric columns, a triple opening with small upper circles The garage in the spandrels. At the base of the great steps are two immense vases of white marble. On each side of the door is a superb Retinospora Obtusa Nana, an ex- traordinary fine pair of specimen trees, said to be the most perfect in America. There are smaller plants in small marble jardinieres here and similar decorations in the bases of the upper central windows. All the windows, it may be added, have outer Venetian blinds, painted green, and those of the second story have wrought iron base grilles. The roof is flat, with a balustrade all around. • ! jj While structurally this facade encloses the front of the house, it is equally valuable as a screen to the sumptuous garden spread before it. In the nomenclature of "Filston" this is the south garden. It is rectangular in form, and wide
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  • bookid:americanhomesgar81911newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:75
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