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  • afforded, are almost unrivalled in extent and variety, and give the stranger or guest, an opportunity of seeing the near and distant views to the best advantage
    17 KB (2,266 words) - 18:18, September 3, 2021
  • According to John Jay’s sister-in-law, Catherine Livingston, a frequent guest of the family, Morris “repaired and enlarged the buildings and converted
    35 KB (4,404 words) - 17:33, August 26, 2021
  • hosted at The Hills ran the gamut from George Washington (a frequent dinner guest during the Continental Convention in 1787) to a delegation of Seneca Indians
    24 KB (2,854 words) - 18:21, August 17, 2021
  • in sentinel array, as a guard of honour come out to welcome the expected guest. This avenue opens by a wicker-gate to a broad area of mingled forest, garden
    68 KB (8,891 words) - 18:36, August 24, 2021
  • (view text). Bartram would have known the plant, for he had been Garden’s guest for nearly three weeks the previous March on his first visit to South Carolina
    50 KB (7,213 words) - 21:12, September 9, 2021
  • (1803–1857), after they emigrated in 1823. Bonaparte also constructed a smaller guest house, known as the Wash or Ice House; a two-story gardener’s house (still
    41 KB (5,233 words) - 14:16, August 26, 2021
  • to prosper as a resort until about 1805 when a fever plagued the summer guest population, reducing the number of seasonal visitors by more than half for
    52 KB (7,284 words) - 18:44, December 7, 2023
  • upper garden, located on the north side of the bowling green, was often a guest’s first stop on a tour of Mount Vernon. Amariah Frost, a visitor from Massachusetts
    84 KB (11,488 words) - 15:35, August 25, 2021
  • Country Places,” stated that thickets should be planted to keep out “unbidden guests.” Downing also recommended the use of tall, dense thickets to screen the
    31 KB (4,281 words) - 17:44, February 3, 2021
  • porticos supported by Greek Doric columns, seems to have functioned as a guest house with lodging rooms in the side wings. According to Andrew Jackson Downing
    116 KB (17,032 words) - 18:25, August 23, 2021
  • —been very much mortified by my ignorance of botany, with which his other guests were familiarly conversant, I had resolved at that time, whenever an opportunity
    54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
  • nicknamed the Pagoda, comprised a basement, three servants’ rooms, and a guest room and was connected to the main cottage by a one-story passage that contained
    63 KB (8,985 words) - 19:09, August 30, 2021
  • public and private realms. When, in 1720, William Byrd II greeted honored guests at Westover, Virginia, on the James River, he “received them at the outer
    49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
  • ground. These labyrinths were the source of much amusement to the family and guests, the trial of skill being to find the centre, and from that point to return
    35 KB (4,352 words) - 09:47, March 4, 2021
  • the carriage porch, or porte cochère, where in a grand home the arriving guests drew up under an architectural canopy for shelter. John Notman similarly
    26 KB (3,352 words) - 10:14, April 6, 2021
  • River and gained a reputation for lavish hospitality, hosting such prominent guests as George Washington, whom he met in 1773 and entertained on numerous occasions
    16 KB (2,129 words) - 13:37, September 27, 2021
  • politicians, historians, and artists who congregated at her home. Among her guests were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Willson Peale. In
    17 KB (2,359 words) - 14:22, September 21, 2021
  • historian, then a resident of Northhampton. He cordially welcomed us as his guests, and ordered the stage up the hill to his house; such a house! It stood
    78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
  • and designed to gratify only the proprietor and his chosen friends and guests—Landscape Gardening is claimed as producing a far greater amount of public
    66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
  • the produce out of the reach of animals, plantation workers, and unwanted guests. On the north side of the mansion, a second orchard was planted with cider
    78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021

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