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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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iining-room 



new house? Yes, practically. And yet an old one, too. 

 For the spirit of the old place broods over the new, the 

 big red chimney, around whose capacious mouth swallows 

 still swing and circle as they did two hundred years ago, is 

 still the heart of the place, the traditions have been kept, 

 and the history of the place carefully collected. 



Even the name is the same. For, as "The Homestead" 

 the old place has been known many many years. 



"The Homestead" it has been for generations who have 

 been born and reared there and gone out into the world, 

 some of them never to come back till they were brought 



Old corner cupboard 



to the little old family burying ground which lies but a few 

 rods from the house, and is carefully, reverently kept to- 

 day. For the owner's love for the place has been en- 

 hanced by the fact that many of its people were his people, 

 too, the old house having belonged for years to a branch 

 of his family. 



How very readily it will be seen from this presentation 

 that the old Homestead is a perfect patriarch among Amer- 

 ican houses, and richly deserves the fame that has come 

 to it as a relic of the past as well as a masterpiece of the 

 present, an improvement to its time as the old one to its day. 



A cellar has been made beneath this kitchen, which had none when built 250 years ago 



