Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (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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TsgFi"- ! i>EQOND fl_ODG- pl_Ar; • provided an out-of-door living-room, or veranda, entirely apart from the porch which marks the entrance. This adds greatly to the comfort and convenience of the family as well as of the arriving guest. The house at Westfield, New Jer- sey, here shown, suggests the New England farmhouse type. Its pro- portions are accurate, its lines severe and, like its New England forbears, its slight touches of decoration mark the entrance to the house, which is approached from the street by a straight walk of brick, which is bor- dered by a low hedge of box. No frills or fads here—no gypsy kettles filled with blooming geraniums! But the hedges are closely clipped, the lawn duly shorn, as befits the sur- roundings of a house of this fascinat- u_„„J „: "i-U u i u The floor plans of the house of Alfred Cluthe, Esq. • , t j 1. a t r* broad piazza with balcony above. K ' H ing type. 1 he Beard house, A. L. L The treatment of this end of the house, with its tall white Marsh, architect, New York, is of the kind which might or columns and detail of balustrade, suggests a plantation house might not be surrounded by ample grounds. It does not re- of the Louisiana or Mississippi type. The floor plans are quire them, and would be exceedingly pleasing had it just very simple and direct—a broad entrance-hall, reception- sufficient space for the trees and the amount of shrubberv
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The effect obtained by shingles of a thatched roof lends a decided charm to the house of Alfred Cluthe, Esq., at Glen Ridge, New Jersey

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