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American homes and gardens (1909) (18154858015)

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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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i66 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1909
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28—The shingled roof of Mr. Perry Todd's house at Montclair, New Jersey, has a thatched effect gable end, with its shaded porch, comes close up to the trees. The hall has green tinted walls and oak trim, which is re- peated in the reception-room, but with old rose wall cover- ing. The same oak appears in the panels of the living-room (Fig. 34), which are filled in with Japanese grass cloth of a golden-brown. The design of the Tiffany brick fireplace is effective. The dining-room (Fig. 35) is Delft blue in plain color up to the plate rail, five feet from the floor, with a figured wall covering above. The woodwork is yellow pine finished in ivory-white. The same yellow pine appears in the finishing of the kitchen and dependencies. On the sec- ond floor are four bedrooms and two baths, and on the third floor three rooms, in spite of the apparently modest size of the house. A larger and more ambitious house (Figs. 37, 38 and 39), designed by Mr. Dudley Van Antwerp for Mr. Henry

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