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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196 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1912
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The walls of the living-room are paneled in squares of dark walnut and the ceiling beams are also of walnut is occupied chiefly by large and very beautiful estates. Here quickly become a part of its surroundings that it is quite the country is high and rolling, in many places heavily easy to imagine it the result of "long years of gradual growth, wooded and possessing many hilltops from which are to The first story, with its many wings and projections, is be had wonderful views of valleys and hills and glimpses of brick. The roof is of shingles and is brought down in of ocean, lakes and sound. Each of the country homes broad eaves over the second story, which is of rough plaster which have been established here is set within spacious and wood in half-timber construction. Many of the win- grounds, far from the roadside, and screened by dense dows are arranged in groups with mullions; small panes growth of trees and shrubbery. are used everywhere and much ivy and other clinging vines The county home here illustrated is an important estate are being trained upon the walls. Planting of shrubbery planned and built for its owner by Messrs. Walker & Gil- in the angles and at the corners of the building and about lette, architects, New York. It presents many of the verandas and entrance-porch have done much to make the aspects that make an English country home so attractive, house so intimate a part of its setting. The surroundings are such IJ^^^^. 'i^^^^^^^M ^he space directly before as one finds in many of the _^^H* BJ#zJJ the entrance front has been counties of England, and the ;"-!gaftfi *fflpBfrfjgffiffl enclosed, English fashion, by architecture of the house and ; :S~2222^'":.'. '•'tBo* Jf^ a t:l" fnmmcc' hedge. This its service buildings, as well Jj&^lHI . *3fe .m^JFi ', large area is graveled and as the planning of the j j ( ; L)i! ° .-Jww'jjJW $ * , ^ affords ample room for the grounds, garden and other parts of the estate are in accord with the arrange- ment of the most modern country homes. Here sur- rounded by broad acres and amid lawns and a beautiful setting of hedges and shrub- bery, the architects have built a delightfully pictur- esque house, long and low, with many gables and some- what rambling, which has so The paneled hall showing entrance to the living-room ImI K wm - / hR T? ^^^^mx^SSSgk 1 wL P^ ,/;HH; KlHirf? j Ml tmtm I ,.1 «li UK..: if — 1 i J. I . ' — •>. -A ' '*iPilJ tM '&.'. -,'"lo8.1 // -4-sss^; H "", ' ' '"■ >: 4* " ■'( juA v 'parking" and turning of carriages and motors which must be planned for in ar- ranging the grounds of a large estate in the part of a country where automobil- ing is so important a part of everyday life. Here abund- ant space is provided for the accommodation of a number of cars without danger of injury to shrubbery or flower beds. A single broad stone

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