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Yard
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 Cuscowilla

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Quarter
encouraged. The quarter for the enslaved laborers sometimes included gardens and yards where residents could grow produce for their own use or bartering. In written

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Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
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 enclosed

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William Bartram
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 by

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Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
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 been

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Orchard (redirect from Hort-yard)
walled, or so curiously inclosed as Gardens. . . “Orchards, or Hort-yards Ort-yards, are inclosed pieces of Ground planted chiefly with Standards Fruit-Trees

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Pavilion
Williamsburg Foundation) “. . . netted lawn for Pavillions or [M]usqito Netts—10 Yards each ps at 10d per Yd.” Carroll, Charles (of Annapolis), 1777, describing

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Fence
provided examples of fashionable designs to be installed in front of suburban yards. Elaborate iron-work fences were particularly popular as enclosures for urban

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Lake
Muscogulge and Cherokee Indians (1791; repr., 1928: 101–2, 407) “At about fifty yards distance from the landing place, stands a magnificent Indian mount. . . But

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State House Yard
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 the

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Promenade
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 enclosed

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Samuel Vaughan
garden, Lawn, Mall, Mound, Seat, Shrubbery, Square, View/Vista, Walk, Wall, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Name Authority File; Export as RDF Samuel

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Gate/Gateway
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 ornamental

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Timothy Dwight
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 belonging

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Canal
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 is

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Plot/Plat
used as a bleaching area for cloth recalls the utilitarian associations of yards (view text). Grass plats were not always attached to houses. Large stretches

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Bower
“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, Manasseh

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Wall
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 enchanting

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Noah Webster
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 for

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Obelisk
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, surrounded

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Orangery
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 hundred

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Temple
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, and

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Mall
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 founding

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Shrubbery
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 fourth

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Mound
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 in

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Grove
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 subject

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Summerhouse
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, and

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Prospect
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 waters

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Robert Mills
Prospect, Square, Statue, Terrace/Slope, View/Vista, Walk, Wall, Wood/Woods, Yard Other resources: Getty ULAN; LOC; Export as RDF Robert Mills (August 12,

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Avenue
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 of

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Manasseh Cutler
Seat, Shrubbery, Square, Summerhouse, Thicket, View/Vista, Walk, Wood/Woods, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Authority File; Manasseh Cutler Papers

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Mount Vernon
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.” [Fig

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The Woodlands
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, supposed

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Park
Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion. . . "The Stable Yard, tho contiguous to the house, is perfectly concealed

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Fall/Falling garden
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 and

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Alley
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-century

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Walk
fine statue, symbol of Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion.” Anonymous, January 2, 1808, describing in the

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Lawn
landscapes. The scale of lawns ranged from modest to grand. Small dwelling yards contrasted with broad swaths of turf in settings as diverse as landscape

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe
following Thornton’s hyperbolic criticisms of Latrobe’s gate for the Navy Yard (1804–1813) and the ornamental eagle and anchor that the Italian sculptor

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Square
streets, and its large squares of Grass, with its neat white houses and little yards in front filled with shrubbery.” Trollope, Frances Milton, 1830, describing

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Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery
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 retaining

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Meadow
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 side

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Hallowell, ME
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 streets

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Hedge
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 subject

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View/Vista
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 and

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Belmont (Baltimore, MD)
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 passed

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Washington Monument (Baltimore, MD)
Arch; Column/Pillar; Fence; Gate/Gateway; Promenade; Square; Statue; Walk; Yard Other Resources: LOC; Getty TGN; Mount Vernon Place Conservancy; The Washington

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Charles Fraser
appeals to the heart than the proudest monument—to exchange the crowded church-yards of cities, whose associations, beyond the claims of private feeling, are

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Terrace/Slope
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 Navy

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Pond
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 pond

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