American homes and gardens (1909) (18130393216)

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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The dining-room has an ancient crane and kettle Several years ago a traveler described the historic house as follows : "Coming from the direction of Marlborough, at a little distance, the gambrel roof of the 'Wayside Inn' peeps above a dense mass of foliage. A sharp turn of the road, which once passed under a triumphal arch composed of two lordly elms, and you are before the house itself. Formerly the capacious barns and tall sign-posts stood across the old grass-bordered country road, which leads straight up to the tavern door. The general appearance of things, however, has been much altered by the building of a new macadam road past the spot by the State. But let us go in. "Everything remains as of old. There is the bar in one corner of the common room, with its wooden portcullis, made to be hoisted or let down at pleasure, but over which never appeared the ominous an- nouncement, 'No liquors sold over this bar.' The little desk, where the tipplers' score was set down, and the old escritoire, looking as if it might have come from some hos- pital for decayed and battered fur- niture, are there now. The bare floor, which once received its regu- lar morning sprinkling of clean white sea-sand; the bare beams and timbers everhead, from which the whitewash has fallen in flakes, and the very oak of which is seasoned with the spicy vapors steaming from pewter flagons, all remind us of the good old days be- fore the introduction of steam and the multitudinous uses of electricity, and the flood of new ideas. Governors, mag- istrates, generals, with scores of others whose names are remembered with honor, have been here to quaff a health or indulge in a drinking-bout. "In the guests' room, on the left of the entrance, the win- dow-pane bears the following recommendation, cut with a gem that sparkled on the finger of that young roysterer, William Molineux, Jr., whose father was the man that walked beside the King's troops In Boston to save them from
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A typical American inn of Colonial and Revolutionary days