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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (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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of the architect another medium of artistic ex-pression. For a period it was under the ban, and the con-tempt for this valuable building material was no doubt A garden seat fostered by the fact that a poor quality of brick was used,and then painted red and marked off with white paint torepresent the mortar joints. But a careful study of oldbrickwork has brought about a revival interest in brickbuildings, and some of our most successful achievementsin domestic architecture have been carried out in this sub-stantial material. A brick house when properly construc-ted is warm in Winter and cool in Summer, and althoughthe initial expense may be greater, the upkeep is less, asa brick house does not require the frequent paintingsnecessitated by a wooden structure to keep it in good condi-tion. Nothing can surpass the beautiful soft, velvety tex-ture of a wall-surface of brick, laid with raked-out mortarjoints, and the variety of color to be obtained cannot berealized with any other material.
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The fountain pool is planted with Water Lilies and surrounded by Iris and clumps of Pansies June, 1913 * AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 199

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