American homes and gardens (1905) (14595590140)

Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: BHL-SIL-FEDLINK



Text Appearing Before Image:
has done more than once before,all preconceived notions of symmetry and balance, and de-signed his exterior to meet the requirements of the interior.In itself this implies no novelty since it is exactly the processon which every architect proceeds—or is supposed to do so.But Mr. Eyre declines to believe that because yourmain entrance is in the center of a house the walls andopenings on either side must be identical. His argu-ment may be briefly imagined to be this: The roomson either side of the entrance have different functions;therefore I will cut my windows where they will be of phy, he has, in the Deacon house, proceeded in exactly theway I have imagined him to have done. His window spac-ing is as irregular as it can be. There are six openings inthe first floor, three on each side of the porch; but the twoouter ones at each end are unlike in size and situation, andof those next the porch one is a small oval window and theother a two-story opening with an arched top. The spacing
Text Appearing After Image:
The Terrace Front and its Massive Stone Base the most service to the rooms; these windows in shape andsize will be the best windows I can think of to suit the in-terior purposes; and if the result is not good it will not bebecause I have not done the best I could. We may be very sure that the latter clause never enteredMr. Eyres mind, and the results of his theorizing have morethan once proved the soundness of his reasoning and thecompleteness of his art. But whatever his general philoso- of the windows on the second floor is quite as irregular, sincethey are not over those of the first story, and the bay windowon one side is not repeated on the other. This wall iscrowned by a high shingled roof in which are three simpledormers. The entrance porch is of the plainest description,with a high shingled roof, while the adjoining space, oneach side, is separated from the further areas by a low stonewall applied to the stuccoed wall of the house. So much for the entrance front, yet this bald