American homes and gardens (1909) (17536832693)

Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (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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sturdy roof it is, covering the whole house with its vigor- ous lines, and ex- tending down below the wall summits that the protection it affords the ver- tical members may be as sufficient as it gives to the spaces within. It is broken only by the chimneys and by the dormer win- d o w s, front and back, strong, simple dormers thoroughly in keeping with the strength that speaks aloud In every part of the design. Very charming, too, Is the simple little entrance-porch, ample enough as a protection to the doorway and to the visitor who awaits admission beneath It; but no more, for no more was needed. But of agreeable resting-places with- out there Is a plenty. Further on, to one side of the entrance- door, is a recessed porch that, opening Into the living-room, corresponds in size and position with the great window on the left that admits light to the dining-room. The ocean front provides more ample areas. Here, in the center, is a terrace, open above, but protected with a great awning. In the center is a flight of steps to the lawn below, while on either side the terrace is enclosed within a balustrade. At one end Is a covered porch that, like the porch on the en- The entrance front and doorway trance front, Im- mediately adjoins the living-room, to which. Indeed, It is an outer extension, as it were, having the real qualities of an out-door sitting- room. The plan of the house is now suf- ficiently disclosed. The entrance-door- way leads directly Into a shallow space, above which, by a step or two, is the entrance-hall. The main stairway rises Immediately on the left, and ascends in a gentle curve to the second story, being carried across and over the doorway to the upper hall. The main hall of the first floor Is divided Into two parts bv col- umns standing on pedestals. The first part Is, in truth, but a corridor, f r o m which rise the stairs. and from which the living-room and dining-room are re- spectively entered. Two more columns complete the indi- vidualization of that portion, and beyond is a spacious reception-room that Is at once the center of the house and Its chief ornamental apartment. It opens directly onto the terrace of the ocean front. On the right is the living-room, a spacious apartment that extends from front to front, and which Is directly connected with the two covered porches, one on each end. The dining-