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• Robert Mills
  of the pleasure of promenading here.” Robert Mills, Design for the Joseph Hand Villa, 1807. Robert Mills, Elevation of the Principal Fronts, Washington
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• Piazza
  Robert Mills, Design for the Joseph Hand Villa, 1807. “Piazza” is inscribed on the principal story. Charles Bulfinch, “Joseph Barrell House remodeled as
  57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
• View/Vista
  and pleasant prospects.” Ball, Joseph, September 8, 1758, describing property in Virginia (Library of Congress, Joseph Ball Letterbook) “I have a Strang
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Terrace/Slope
  a proposed villa in Oswego, NY (1849; repr., 1976: 2:14) “The design given in this part of the Architect, number XXVI, is the plan of a Villa in the Anglo-Italian
  72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
• Arch
  monuments to President Washington in the early 19th century. The designs of Joseph Jacques Ramée in Baltimore and of George Bridport in Philadelphia [Figs
  26 KB (3,438 words) - 16:44, March 15, 2021
• Bed
  Salem, NC, c. 1759. Claude Joseph Sauthier, A Plan of the Town of Newbern in Craven County, North Carolina, 1769. Claude Joseph Sauthier, John Hawk’s plan
  85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
• Lawn
  Full View of Deadrick’s Hill, 1810. Joseph Jacques Ramée, Plan of the Campus Grounds, Union College, 1813. Joseph Jacques Ramée, Plan of Union College
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
• Picturesque
  soon left our comfortless abode [the inn] for as neat and trig a little villa as ever was seen in or out of the Tropics. This mansion, which in India would
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
• Gate/Gateway
  heads at the Street Gates.” Ball, Joseph, February 1734, describing a property in Virginia (Library of Congress, Joseph Ball Letterbook) “I would have a
  49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
• Statue
  result, before 1852 many statues were imported. Treatise author Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville commented in 1712 that “statues are not for every
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Shrubbery
  1817), view on Zotero. Walter Nicol, The Villa-Garden Directory, or Monthly Index of Word, to Be Done in Town and Villa Gardens, Shrubberies and Parterres (Edinburgh:
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• Walk
  (January 2012): 27. Joseph Jacques Ramée, Plan of Union College, 1813. Lewis and Goodwin (lithographers), after a drawing by Joseph Jacques Ramée, Union
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Belvedere/Prospect tower/Observatory
  Anonymous, “An Elizabethan villa,” in Louisa C. Tuthill, History of Architecture (1848), 284, fig. 40. Anonymous, “Second Floor” of a Villa in the Italian Style
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• Icehouse
  Bordentown, New Jersey: of the late Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain,” 1847. Anonymous, “Plan of a Suburban Villa Residence,” in A. J. Downing, A
  44 KB (6,456 words) - 13:35, April 12, 2021
• Geometric style
  Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1838, The Suburban Gardener (1838: 529–31) “A Villa Residence of Two Acres, within a regular Boundary, laid out in the Geometrical
  29 KB (4,176 words) - 11:57, March 16, 2021
• Flower garden
  David Hepburn, The American Gardener (Georgetown, DC: Joseph Milligan, 1818), view on Zotero; Joseph Breck, The Flower-Garden (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1851)
  123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
• Yard
  Academy (1768). Claude Joseph Sauthier, A Plan of the Town & Port of Edenton in Chowan County, North Carolina, 1769. Claude Joseph Sauthier, A Plan of the
  70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
• Plot/Plat
  topographically level partition of a garden. Thomas Green Fessenden (1828) and Joseph Breck (1851) continued this connotation of flatness and used the term to
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Hedge
  (1806: 54, 57—58) “The Fences separating the Park-lawn from the Garden on one hand, & the office yard on the other, are 4 ft. 6 high. The former are made with
  88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
• Plantation
  Hill), seat of Joseph Barrell, Charlestown, MA (1821: 1:489) “MONDAY, October, 14th, we visited Cobble Hill; the handsome seat of Joseph Barrell Esq. This
  67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021

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