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AMERICAN HOMES 
The houscrec te 
finds an interesting 
exponent of their ap- 
plication to the modern suburban 
home in the house here illustrated, 
the residence of Mr. Max Held, at 
Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, de- 
signed by Arthur D. Russell, archi- 
tect, New York, who also planned 
the interior decorations throughout. 
In recent years we have come to have 
a more intimate acquaintance with 
the decorative period which pro- 
duced the furniture of Adams, 
Sheraton, Chippendale and Hepple- 
white, but we have seen less, per- 
haps, of the decorative periods ‘pre- 
ceding the styles just mentioned, at 
least so far as interior work is con- 
cerned. 
The main motif of the Held house 
is that of English design, and both 
the exterior and the interior have 
been successfully evolved along these... 
Nes eicrner aE Brooklyn, ee 
A House on English Gothic 
WHE charm of the various English styles of 
domestic architecture and interior decora- 
tion that are coming to appeal very strongly 
to the present generation of home builders, 
By Harvey L. Reddington 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
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e main entrance to the Held house 
AND GARDENS 
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from the terrace side 
April, 1912 
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lines without producing anything that detracts from the 
homelike quality that every dwelling should possess, and 
without the introduction of those bizarre notes that often 
tend to throw a sense of modern order into confusion 
through a misapplication of period 
to place. 
The first consideration of the 
architect in the present instance was 
that of harmonizing the interior of 
the house to its exterior, in the mat- 
ter of general lines. Then followed 
the careful planning of color schemes 
for the various rooms, and finally 
detail was determined upon. ‘The 
floor coverings for each room of the 
Held house were especially designed 
for the rooms they were to find 
place in, the carpets being woven in 
deep, rich Austrian hand-tufted fab- 
ric. Each piece of furniture in the 
Held house was likewise especially 
designed to fit the room in which it 
was intended to be placed. ‘The 
woodwork of the entire first floor 
of the house is of oak, rich and 
brown in finish, and although gen- 
erously utilized, the effect is one 
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