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Lemon Hill

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Site dates:

Site Owner(s):
Robert Morris (dates)
Henry Pratt (dates)
Site designer(s):

Alternate Names: The Hills

Associated Sites: Belmont (Pennsylvannia), Clermont, Fairmont

Location:
Philadelphia, PA
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Bibliography

  • Downing, A. J. [Andrew Jackson]. 1849. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening... 4th ed. New York: G. P. Putnam.[1]
Lemon Hill, half a mile above the Fairmount water-works of Philadelphia, was, 20 years ago, the most perfect specimen of the geometric mode in America, and since its destruction by the extension of the city, a few years since, there is nothing comparable with it, in that style, among us. All the symmetry, uniformity, and high art of the old school, were displayed here in artificial plantations, formal gardens with trellises, grottoes, spring-houses, temples, statues, and vases, with numerous ponds of water, jets-d’eau, and other water-works, parterres and an extensive range of hothouses.

Notes

  1. Downing, A. J. [Andrew Jackson]. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America;... 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1849.

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