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  • Portico
    Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 107) “The North side [of Nomini Hall] I think is most beautiful of all;
    41 KB (5,290 words) - 15:36, August 13, 2021
  • Mount
    Anonymous, St. Joseph’s near Emmettsburg, c. 1825. E. Mound, attr., Nomini Hall, pre-1850. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney
    21 KB (2,805 words) - 16:21, April 1, 2021
  • Avenue
    repeatedly in descriptions of avenues framing a house, such as that at Nomini Hall in Westmoreland County, Virginia, which was described in 1774 by Philip
    89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
  • Mound
    Anonymous, St. Joseph’s near Emmettsburg, c. 1825. E. Mound (attr.), Nomini Hall, pre-1850. Frederick Graff, Plan of Lemon Hill and Sedgley Park, Fairmount
    20 KB (2,747 words) - 13:08, March 16, 2021
  • Plot/Plat
    1764 prospect of Nassau Hall at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) depicts a grass plot, in front of the hall, demarcated by a fence [Fig
    54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
  • Terrace/Slope
    Athens.” [Fig. 9] Fithian, Philip Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 108) “From the front yard of the Great
    72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
  • Yard
    Side of the House.” Fithian, Philip Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 108) “From the front yard of the Great
    70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
  • Orchard
    describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 121) “. . . as I look from my Window & see Groves of Peach Trees on the Banks of Nomini; (for the
    78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
  • Park
    for present-day City Hall Park in New York originally was set aside as a common early in the city’s history. In 1803, when City Hall was erected on a site
    87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
  • Walk
    adjacent country.” Fithian, Philip Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, VA (1943: 109) “The Area of the Triangle made by
    146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
  • Writing the Landscape
    Philip Vickers Fithian, who was serving as tutor to the Carter children at Nomini Hall in Virginia, described an encounter in the garden between himself and
    160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021

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