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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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has a wall-covering 

 of two-toned yellow 

 striped wall-paper, 

 while the dining- 

 room has a wall- 

 paper of mustard 

 yellow, reaching 

 from the floor, to 

 the plate rack which 

 extends around the 

 room. The wall- 

 space above the 

 plate rack is cov- 

 ered with a brown 

 and yellow wall-pa- 

 per in a large fig- 

 ure. The kitchen 

 and its appoint- 

 ments are complete 

 in every respect. It 

 has a T-hite tiled 

 wainscoting and a 

 natural trim of cyp- 

 ress. The second 

 and third floors are 

 trimmed with cyp- 

 ress and painted 

 with white enamel. 

 There are four bed- 

 rooms and a bath- 

 room on the second 

 floor, and two bed- 

 rooms and a bath- 

 room on the third 

 floor. The bath- 

 rooms have tiled 

 wainscotings, and 

 porcelain fixtures 

 with exposed nickel- 

 plated plumbing. 



The house illus 

 trated in Figures 5. 

 6 and 7, is an- 

 other Oakcroft 

 house built for 

 Aaron Godfrey, 

 Esq., and is of the 

 English half-timber 

 style, with stucco for 

 the first story and half-tim- 

 ber work for the second and 

 third stories. The half- 

 timber work is stained a 

 soft brown tone, harmoniz- 

 ing nicely with the gray 

 stucco and the moss-green 

 stain of its shingled roof. 

 The hall, living-room and 

 dining-room are trimmed 

 with oak, finished with a 

 Flemish brown. The hall 

 has a two-toned brown wall- 

 paper and the living-room 

 a two-toned green striped 

 wall-paper, and also an 

 open fireplace, with brick 

 facings and hearth. The 

 dining-room has a plain 

 green paper to the height 

 of six feet, at which point a 



■igure 



Lemkau's house is built of stucco, tinted a natural silver gray color 



Figure 3 — The first and second floor plans of Mr. Lennkau's house 



Figure 4 — The dining-room of Mr. Lemkau's house has an open fire- 

 place and a china closet built in above it 



plate rack is built 

 around the room. 

 The wall space 

 above the plate rack 

 is covered with a 

 forest-green paper. 

 The kitchen is 

 trimmed with natu- 

 ral finished cypress, 

 and it has a tiled 

 wainscoting. The 

 second story, which 

 contains four bed- 

 rooms and a bath, 

 is also trimmed 

 with cypress, paint- 

 ed white. Fhere 

 are two bedrooms, 

 a trunk-room and a 

 bath on the third 

 floor. The bath- 

 rooms have a tiled 

 wainscoting and are 

 provided with por- 

 celain fixtures, with 

 exposed nickel- 

 plated plumbing. 



An interesting 

 house is the one 

 built for Frederick 

 A. Dibble, shown in 

 Figures 20, 21 and 

 22. The exterior is 

 also of stucco tinted 

 a creamlsh white. 

 The roof is painted 

 a moss-green. The 

 first floor is trimmed 

 with red oak fin- 

 ished in Flemish 

 brown. The fire- 

 places in the living 

 and dining-rooms 

 are built of red 

 brick with hearth 

 and facings of the 

 same. The service 

 end of the house is 

 complete. The 

 kitchen has a tiled wain- 

 scoting and a natural fin- 

 ished cypress trim. The 

 second floor contains four 

 bedrooms and a bath, and 

 the one above, two bed- 

 rooms, a bath and a trunk- 

 room. The bathroom has 

 tiled wainscoting and ex- 

 posed nickel-plated plumb- 

 nig. The cellar contains 

 the heating apparatus. 



The house built for John 

 R. Brandon, shown in Fig- 

 ures 8, 12 and 13, is of an- 

 other type and with more 

 formal lines In its design. 

 The charm resides in its 

 massive wall surfaces of 

 stucco, which are well 

 broken by the numer- 



