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• Samuel Vaughan
  friendship with his hero, George Washington, to whom he was introduced by Benjamin Rush. Vaughan took particular interest in the architecture, grounds, and interior
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• David Hosack
  University of Pennsylvania, boarding in the home of one of his professors, Benjamin Rush, and forming a close friendship with Caspar Wistar. He received a medical
  54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
• Pierre-Charles L’Enfant
  entertainments in honor of the birth of an heir to Louis XVI. According to Benjamin Rush, the surrounding grounds were “cut into beautiful walks and divided with
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• Botanic garden
  Manasseh, July 13, 1787, describing Philadelphia, PA (1987: 1:257–58) “He [Benjamin Rush] observed that they were endeavoring to raise a fund for establishing
  63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
• Manasseh Cutler
  State House Yard, Philadelphia, PA (1987: 1:257–58, 262–63) “. . . He [Benjamin Rush] observed that they were endeavoring to raise a fund for establishing
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• State House Yard
  “superb specimens” by Andrew Jackson Downing. Two carved wooden statues by Benjamin Rush representing female allegories of Wisdom and Justice briefly stood along
  41 KB (5,292 words) - 18:37, August 30, 2021
• Benjamin Vaughan
  on Zotero; Ellen Cohn, “Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Vaughan, and Political, Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces,” in Benjamin Franklin, An American Genius
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• Moses Marshall
  physician Nicholas Way in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1776 to 1779, and with Benjamin Rush and William Shippen at the University of Pennsylvania during the winter
  39 KB (5,648 words) - 13:34, September 27, 2021
• Otranto (Charleston, SC)
  1776. A loyalist, he was demoralized by the conflict, confessing to Benjamin Rush in September 1781 that he had suspended his scientific correspondence
  28 KB (3,353 words) - 18:55, August 25, 2021
• Statue
  Thompson, “The Public Work of William Rush: A Case Study in the Origins of American Sculpture,” in William Rush, American Sculptor, exh. cat. (Philadelphia:
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Fountain
  Thompson, “The Public Work of William Rush: A Case Study in the Origins of American Sculpture,” in William Rush, American Sculptor (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Square
  Haven,” 1817. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “Project for the Principal Gates of the Public Square at New Orleans,” c. March 1819. William Rush, North East or
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
• Canal
  Canal in 1803, 1805. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Plan of the Capitol grounds, 1815. The “canal” runs through the middle of the plan. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Plan
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Lake
  Downing (1847) praised the effect of contrasting water features, such as the rush of the waterfall at Blithewood, on the Hudson, juxtaposed with the still
  21 KB (2,936 words) - 13:56, March 16, 2021
• Walk
  ornamented with Gravel Walks, Trees cut into different Forms, & Grass.” Rush, Dr. Benjamin, July 15, 1782, describing the country seat of John Dickinsen, near
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Grove
  the fringe Trees and several other kinds that might be mentioned.” Rush, Dr. Benjamin, July 15, 1782, describing the country seat of John Dickinsen, near
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Pond
  Downing (1847) praised the effect of contrasting water features, such as the rush of the waterfall at Blithewood, on the Hudson, juxtaposed with the still
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Bernard M’Mahon
  to his correspondence and acquaintance with the botanist and physician Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815). He must also have visited Bartram’s Garden, another
  55 KB (7,248 words) - 19:25, September 21, 2021
• Seat
  of a substantial planter something of the Air of a small village.” Rush, Dr. Benjamin, July 15, 1782, describing the country seat of John Dickinsen, near
  85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
• Shrubbery
  present Seat of his Excel. the Vice President of the United States, 1790. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Garden plan with outbuildings, from “Buildings Erected or
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021

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