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- function is illustrated in Robert Waln Jr.’s 1825 description of the Friends Asylum for the Insane, in Charles Bulfinch’s 1818 plan of two wings added to Pleasant70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
- promenade for the ladies—who are obliged to frequent it for exercise—It is about 8 feet wide, the slope towards the river presents all the shipping of the harbour146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
- parks. In addition, in the second half of the 18th century the lawn referred to the agrarian roots of the new republic and to the classical villas, on which108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
- Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia, PA (American Journal of Insanity 4: 347–52) “The pleasure grounds and farm of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
- Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, New York, NY (quoted in Hawkins 1991: 86) “The approach to the Asylum from the southern entrance, by the stranger who associates66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
- spent in playing through the labyrinths of the trimmed hedges of box, and where the althea, the lilac and the hawthorn, bounded the parterre.” Ingraham, Joseph62 KB (8,610 words) - 10:50, April 6, 2021
- front, as well for the convenience of walking therein during the day, as for preventing the sun’s too great influence on the interior of the house.” Watson57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
- Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, New York, NY (Journal of Medicine 10: 63) “Airing Courts, or Yards.—There are three of these courts for the men, and four29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
- 24, in the outer dimensions, and half the width disposed of for two rooms, back of the part designed for the green house; leaving the latter in the clear122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
