American homes and gardens (1907) (14764218492)

Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
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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by the courtesy of the Mount Vernon LadiesAssociation, has suffered little change. The brick floor andfireplace date from the building of the house in 1743. An old Rhode Island kitchen is shown in two views. Thefireplace is well shown in one, where the pots hang properlyon the hooks and the andirons or fire-dogs are of simple iron.On the right are a warming pan and bread shovel. A viewof the same oven is shown in another view where the cookis putting a pie in it. Another photograph represents a somewhat fancifully ar-ranged kitchen of the nineteenth century—an attempt to re-vive the old kitchen living-room. The beams, wall, andstairway of the ancient room are preserved. In the centerof the room stands an oak table of the thousand leggedvariety; an old clock and mirror adorn the walls, and alsosome pewter platters, which should be arranged in a dresseror in a rack. A lantern hangs from the beams, which is per-fectly correct, but the place for the foot-warmer is certainlyon the floor.
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jUNNING ones eye over the dainty tables ofa smart restaurant, or a fashionable churchturned into a fragrant bower of violets androses for a wedding, one wonders vaguelyat the extent of the flower traffic of theworlds richest city, where American Beau-ties command thirty dollars a dozen at retail in winter, carnations six dollars, and cattleya orchids fifteen dollars a dozen. And one is amazed to find there are in the city over two