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- treatment of yards varied, as indicated by descriptions of southern paved yards and by William Bartram's account (1791) of Native American swept yards in Cuscowilla70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
- provided examples of fashionable designs to be installed in front of suburban yards. Elaborate iron-work fences were particularly popular as enclosures for urban105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
- who are interred in them, remained; this location of burial-grounds [or yards located behind a church that was set in a public square] seems to have been71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
- enabled and marked the transition from one area to another, such as between yards devoted to different activities, between a work space and a more ornamental49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- 51–53) “PLAN OF THE ANCIENT CHUNKY-YARD. “The subjoined plan. . . will illustrate the form and character of these yards. “A, the great area, surrounded by42 KB (5,973 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
- Williamsburg Foundation) “. . . netted lawn for Pavillions or [M]usqito Netts—10 Yards each ps at 10d per Yd.” Carroll, Charles (of Annapolis), 1777, describing33 KB (4,449 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
- encouraged. The quarter for the enslaved laborers sometimes included gardens and yards where residents could grow produce for their own use or bartering. In written27 KB (3,739 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
- used as a bleaching area for cloth recalls the utilitarian associations of yards (view text). Grass plats were not always attached to houses. Large stretches54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
- Muscogulge and Cherokee Indians (1791; repr., 1928: 101–2, 407) “At about fifty yards distance from the landing place, stands a magnificent Indian mount. . . But21 KB (2,936 words) - 13:56, March 16, 2021
- n.p.) “the river is backed up by a wall of four feet high, and about 300 yards in length, and above this wall there is as you may suppose the most enchanting72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
- private yards, one hundred and seventeen feet wide, and extending two hundred feet from the return wings which form one of their sides. These yards are enclosed33 KB (4,371 words) - 21:34, August 25, 2021
- of Edmund Quincy, Boston, MA (quoted in Pearson 1980: 6) “. . . about Ten Yards from the House is a Beautiful Cannal, which is Supplyd by a Brook which is32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
- its numerous varieties, as shrubs. After an extent of several yards, or hundreds of yards, have been occupied with these two genera, a third and fourth81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
- fine statue, symbol of Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion.” Anonymous, January 2, 1808, describing in the146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
- which was a Chinese temple.” Anonymous, April 17, 1829, “Neglected Grave Yards” (New England Farmer 7: 307) “I wish to call your attention to the subject80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
- Wash-House; these Rows are something wider than the House, & are about 300 yards Long, at the Eastermost end of which is the great Road. . . These Rows of89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
- private yards, one hundred and seventeen feet wide, and extending two hundred feet from the return wings which form one of their sides. These yards are enclosed21 KB (2,637 words) - 16:57, March 8, 2021
- the soil equal in fertility to any in the world. The river is about eighty yards wide, always confined with in its lofty banks, and rolling down its waters57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
- near Philadelphia, PA (1798: 9, 24–25) “At the distance of three hundred yards from his house, on the top of a rock whose sides were steep, rugged, and44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
- Wieland, near Philadelphia, PA (1798: 9) “At the distance of three hundred yards from his house, on the top of a rock whose sides were steep, rugged, and54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021
- their court-yards.” Dwight, Timothy, 1799, describing New Lebanon, NY (1821–22: 3:149) “Their church, a plain, but neat building, had a court-yard belonging32 KB (4,550 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
- leaving an open and full view of the distant woods—the mounds are at 60 yards apart. I mention this because it is the only departure from the origl.” [Fig84 KB (11,488 words) - 15:35, August 25, 2021
- “Rosamund’s bower was near where is now a little grove, about two hundred yards from the palace. The well is near where the bower was.” Cutler, Manasseh29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
- commanding a view of a prettily falling grass plat. . . about 300 by 100 yards in extent an extensive prospect of James River and of all the Country and80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
- 51—53) “PLAN OF THE ANCIENT CHUNKY-YARD. “The subjoined plan. . . will illustrate the form and character of these yards. [Fig. 7] “A, the great area, surrounded54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
- grove. The house was situated on an eminence, about one hundred and fifty yards from the river. On the right hand was the orangery, consisting of many hundred26 KB (3,525 words) - 13:36, September 11, 2020
- Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion. . . "The Stable Yard, tho contiguous to the house, is perfectly concealed87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
- walled, or so curiously inclosed as Gardens. . . “Orchards, or Hort-yards Ort-yards, are inclosed pieces of Ground planted chiefly with Standards Fruit-Trees78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
- Garden” to its north and “A new flower Garden” (measuring twenty-six by ten yards) to the south. Board fences enclose each of these areas. A stone retaining50 KB (7,152 words) - 19:49, September 1, 2021
- Myrtle and sweet orange Trees.” Anonymous, April 17, 1829, “Neglected Grave Yards” (New England Farmer 7: 307) “I wish to call your attention to the subject88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
- which communicate with each other across the road give occasion every 50 yards for a bridge; and between every two bridges are two gates one on each side31 KB (4,224 words) - 18:49, August 12, 2021
- landscapes. The scale of lawns ranged from modest to grand. Small dwelling yards contrasted with broad swaths of turf in settings as diverse as landscape108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
- abode of contemplation. A rapid stream ripples over the rocks, at a few yards distance, producing the melancholy, but pleasing sounds of a distant waterfall35 KB (4,959 words) - 10:16, February 18, 2021
- or Labyrinths, where the Eye cannot discover more than twenty or thirty Yards in Length; and the more these Walks are turn’d, the greater Pleasure they40 KB (5,678 words) - 17:24, August 19, 2021
- Person Upon the Sabbath day to Drinke or Game In their houses Gardens or Yards Shall for ye first offense forfeict five and Twenty Guildars.” Bowling greens31 KB (4,393 words) - 16:19, January 25, 2021
- of Edmund Quincy, Boston, MA (quoted in Pearson 1980: 6) “. . . about Ten Yards from the House is a Beautiful Cannal, which is Supplyd by a Brook which is58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
- abode of contemplation. A rapid stream ripples over the rocks, at a few yards distance, producing the melancholy, but pleasing sounds of a distant waterfall58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
- there was] a view of a prettily falling grass plat. . . about 300 by 100 yards in extent an extensive prospect of James River and of all the Country and17 KB (2,281 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
- appeals to the heart than the proudest monument—to exchange the crowded church-yards of cities, whose associations, beyond the claims of private feeling, are25 KB (3,329 words) - 18:47, August 17, 2021
- Ponds made in this way may be of any convenient size, from a couple of yards upwards to as many acres. The following [Fig. 137.] is the section of a pond60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
- garden-walls to consist chiefly of semicircles; each about six or eight yards in front, and two trees; and between every two semicircles, including-a space44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
- the men’s side, there is a private yard for females, and the flower-garden in front of the lodge, and the paved yards connected with it are similarly arranged123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
- plantation near New Orleans, LA (1835: 1:81) “Situated about two hundred yards back from the river, the approach to it [the house] was by a lofty massive62 KB (8,610 words) - 10:50, April 6, 2021
- New York, NY (Journal of Medicine 10: 64) “The Physicians who object to yards, or courts, advocate, as a substitute, open verandahs guarded by lattice-work33 KB (4,443 words) - 08:18, April 8, 2021
- edge of the property. At the opposite side, two tree-lined walks led 150 yards down a moderate slope to the river’s edge. Several of the plants cultivated39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
- appearance of meanders, where the eye cannot discover more than twenty or thirty yards in length, are generally preferable to all others, and these should now and25 KB (3,864 words) - 17:46, September 13, 2021
- streets, and its large squares of Grass, with its neat white houses and little yards in front filled with shrubbery.” Trollope, Frances Milton, 1830, describing67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
- make it evident that the distance could not have been more than twenty yards. You, sir, are acquainted with the original of this picture. You know the75 KB (10,290 words) - 18:14, August 24, 2021
- principal windows of the house. As the company, broken into small parties a few yards from each other, were walking slowing along this walk, a snake, supposed110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
- It supplies the fountains in front of the house, the cold Bath, the Barn yards, the gardens, & at different distances in the fields may be unstopped for68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
- ridiculous to erect a pompous temple where there was not the extent of a hundred yards from the building. . . “He who would know where to place his pavilion, seat85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
- surrounded by a high stone wall, and on each side, at the distance of 1 or 300 yards is a large brick building, one for the Sec. of War and the other of the Navy72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
- together with the others, forms a fine stream, in some places six or eight yards wide.” Warden, David Bailie, 1816, describing Bladensburg, MD (1816: 160)40 KB (5,911 words) - 10:29, February 12, 2021
- furnish a succession of level surfaces for gardens, house-plats and court yards; and are thus very convenient, as well as sometimes very handsome. The streets16 KB (2,030 words) - 22:33, August 18, 2021
- fine statue, symbol of Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion. “The Conservatory consists of a green house,62 KB (9,081 words) - 13:02, April 1, 2021
- Instructions for the Cultivation of Flower Gardens, Vineyards, Nurseries, Hop Yards, Green Houses and Hot Houses (Washington, DC: Printed by Samuel H. Smith85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
- preparations for a kitchen garden. A park with a circumference measuring 1,850 yards had been cleared on the north side of the mountain by September. Work on78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021
- substantial brick dwelling, on the north side of the main road, about fifty yards from the river.—This house the British also occupied; and when they evacuated48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
- ground has been completely drained by drains extending between 400 and 500 yards in length, and in some places 3 feet deep; the canal has been deepened so34 KB (4,708 words) - 21:36, August 16, 2021
- of fruits, Trees, and Herbs which the country will afford,” as well as “Yards about 120 feet long, planted with orange Trees”(view text). In 1765 William26 KB (3,524 words) - 03:11, August 10, 2021
- ortegard; that is, wort-yard, a yard for herbs. The Germans call it baumgarten, tree-garden, and the Dutch boomgaard, tree-yard. See Yard.] “An inclosure for55 KB (8,122 words) - 21:48, October 5, 2021
- stood on an artificial mound in a grove of cedar and ash trees about 100 yards from D’Annemours’s house. It appears in Charles Varlé’s Warner & Hanna’s15 KB (1,848 words) - 17:38, September 8, 2021
- stood on an artificial mound in a grove of cedar and ash trees about 100 yards from D’Annemours’s house. After D’Annemours sold Belmont, the estate passed11 KB (1,127 words) - 18:53, August 18, 2021
- garden, Lawn, Mall, Mound, Seat, Shrubbery, Square, View/Vista, Walk, Wall, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Name Authority File; Export as RDF Samuel25 KB (3,188 words) - 21:31, October 5, 2021
- together with the others, forms a fine stream, in some places six or eight yards wide. This place was formerly the property of the family of Fairfax, once52 KB (7,284 words) - 18:44, December 7, 2023
- two large windows[.] ye farther end of his garden reaches to within A few yards of ye rivers bank; ye north front hath A fine prospect of ye town through18 KB (2,353 words) - 18:03, September 16, 2021
- following Thornton’s hyperbolic criticisms of Latrobe’s gate for the Navy Yard (1804–1813) and the ornamental eagle and anchor that the Italian sculptor38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
- this latter context that Manasseh Cutler’s description of the State House Yard, Philadelphia, cites Hogarth’s “Line of Beauty,” an allusion to mid-18th-century34 KB (4,480 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- —as the Vinca or Periwinkle, whose brilliant dark leaves formed a bed many yards square. “After examining the trees for some time, the grand nephew of HUMPHREY32 KB (4,232 words) - 20:32, August 19, 2021
- Seat, Shrubbery, Square, Summerhouse, Thicket, View/Vista, Walk, Wood/Woods, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Authority File; Manasseh Cutler Papers44 KB (7,185 words) - 20:02, September 8, 2021
- relief and visual interest to relatively flat areas, as in the yard at the State House Yard in Philadelphia, which the Rev. Manasseh Cutler described in20 KB (2,747 words) - 13:08, March 16, 2021
- Prospect, Square, Statue, Terrace/Slope, View/Vista, Walk, Wall, Wood/Woods, Yard Other resources: Getty ULAN; LOC; Export as RDF Robert Mills (August 12,31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
- ground; Seat; Shrubbery; Square; View/Vista; Walk; Wall; Yard Other Resources: LOC; The State House Yard in Philadelphia was dedicated as a public green in the41 KB (5,292 words) - 18:37, August 30, 2021
- appropriation in Washington, DC, may have derived from the naming of the State House Yard in Philadelphia, which was also known as a mall. The association of the founding20 KB (2,767 words) - 10:38, April 6, 2021
- reaches from the one to the other. . . opposite to this Parade is a Court Yard & a large Kitchen Garden.” Vaughan, Samuel, 1787, describing Mount Vernon61 KB (8,699 words) - 13:31, April 12, 2021
- borders of the gravel walk to the No. Necessary—from the circle in the Court yard. . . “Planted the 9 young peach Trees which I brought from Mr. Cockburns49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
- recreation depicted in William Russell Birch's illustration of the State House Yard in Philadelphia [Fig. 2]. In addition to serving multiple purposes as a communal23 KB (3,079 words) - 14:14, March 31, 2021
- Statue, Summerhouse, Temple, Vase/Urn, View/Vista, Walk, Wall, Wood/Woods, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Authority File; Getty ULAN; American35 KB (4,930 words) - 17:10, September 28, 2021
- in his green- or hothouse and, in good weather, moved them out to a nearby yard. In the painted views of Thomas Say’s garden in New Harmony, Indiana [Fig31 KB (4,315 words) - 17:29, March 16, 2021
- Rivers in the distant view; while there is revealed a glimpse of the navy yard where eight frigates of the United States Navy lie in mooring.” Anonymous34 KB (4,340 words) - 18:12, August 25, 2021
- distance, all built of free-stone, with a handsome fence inclosing a court-yard in front.” Morse, Jedidiah, 1789, describing New York, NY (1789; repr., 1970:39 KB (5,484 words) - 17:07, April 7, 2021
- Gothic Architecture (1747), pl. 1. William Bartram, “Arrangement of the Chunky-Yard, Public Square, and Rotunda of the modern Creek towns,” in “Observations24 KB (3,316 words) - 19:57, October 30, 2020
- Arch; Column/Pillar; Fence; Gate/Gateway; Promenade; Square; Statue; Walk; Yard Other Resources: LOC; Getty TGN; Mount Vernon Place Conservancy; The Washington17 KB (2,082 words) - 19:52, August 30, 2021
- Property, October 15, 1851. William Bartram, “Plan of the Ancient Chunky-Yard,” in “Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians” (1789), Transactions21 KB (2,805 words) - 16:21, April 1, 2021
- Pavilion for an eminence.” [Fig. 6] William Bartram, “Plan of the Ancient Chunky-Yard,” in “Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians” (1789), from Transactions30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
- Labyrinth, Parterre, Piazza, Plot/Plat, Seat, Square, Walk, Wilderness, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Authority File; Export as RDF Deborah17 KB (2,359 words) - 14:22, September 21, 2021
- this view the stone steps at the End of the house is seen, which lead to the yard in front of the Garden, the Garden pails are on a stone wall on which grows27 KB (3,621 words) - 19:53, September 1, 2021
- undoubtedly the best; but for small parterres, or the flower beds in a front door yard, it seems much less suitable. They can commonly be taken in at one glance29 KB (4,176 words) - 11:57, March 16, 2021
- Gardener and Housewife (1842: 317–18) “PIGEONS. . . A pretty object in a poultry yard is a wooden structure or dovecote raised from the ground on one or more high12 KB (1,611 words) - 13:47, January 28, 2021
- windows from the northeast face of his residence, overlooking the “private yard” in which his enslaved African American servants lived and worked. Whether38 KB (4,757 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
- open green and walks forever.” Like many public gardens, the State House Yard derived its significance from its proximity to an important public building42 KB (5,954 words) - 14:27, March 10, 2021
- 1823, “National Burying Ground” (New England Farmer 1: 206) “This grave-yard contains an area of two or three acres, enclosed by a plain wooden fence23 KB (3,312 words) - 10:24, August 6, 2020
- America and might be made a l’Anglaise with ease. I like her plan that the fore-yard should be thrown down into a lawn that carriages may drive to the front door33 KB (4,627 words) - 14:28, February 17, 2021
- undoubtedly the best; but for small parterres, or the flower beds in a front door yard, it seems much less suitable. They can commonly be taken in at one glance30 KB (4,314 words) - 10:44, April 6, 2021
- the left side of the drawing. William Bartram, “Plan of the Ancient Chunky-Yard,” in “Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians” (1789), from Transactions51 KB (7,192 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
- the old College house which stood opposite the bookseller’s in the college yard. In taking up this covered walk was found the skull of a dog, with a brass42 KB (5,637 words) - 13:27, April 1, 2021
- door-way, simple and pretty hoods upon brackets over the windows, the door-yard was all laid out afresh, the worn out apple trees were dug up, a nice bit26 KB (3,352 words) - 10:14, April 6, 2021
- were sitting under a kind of piazza in front of the house or standing in the yard. . . About eleven preparations were made for repose. . . The floor of the57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
- in Philadelphia, centrally located on Market Street near the State House Yard. Built in the late 1760s, the house had been damaged by fire in 1780 and16 KB (2,129 words) - 13:37, September 27, 2021
- Part that lies next the House, which is intended to be divided into Court Yards, Parterres, &c. And Batty Langley (1728), like Dézallier d’Argenville, included69 KB (8,394 words) - 16:28, September 1, 2021
