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- building; as a prospect towards the south or north. Ezek. xl.” Teschemacher, James E., November 1, 1835, “On Horticultural Architecture” (Horticultural Register57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
- triangular plot of land created by intersecting roads (view text). In James E. Teschemacher’s 1835 report of a garden building, he describes a crescent-shaped54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
- Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson, Landscape108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
- EM’INENCY, n. [L. eminentia, from eminens, emineo, to stand or show itself above; e and minor, to threaten, that is, to stand or push forward. . .] “1. Elevation30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
- Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson31 KB (4,281 words) - 17:44, February 3, 2021
- may be Chinese, Grecian, or in the taste of the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens.” Jefferson, Thomas, April 1786, describing Hagley, property of Lord Wescot35 KB (4,959 words) - 10:16, February 18, 2021
- principal street, commands a beautiful view of the river, the village of Athens opposite, the country beyond, and the towering Catskill mountains.” Hall21 KB (2,637 words) - 16:57, March 8, 2021
- William Mumford, Clarke’s Hall & Dock Creek, c. 1844. F. F. Judd (artist), E. B. and E. C. Kellogg (lithographers), “Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Connecticut146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
- of the central walk, is a vase, rustic basket, or other ornamental object, e. The semi-circle, embraced within the arbor, is a space laid with regular beds49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
- one story higher than common with a rich owner.” Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E., May 25, 1794, describing the fences of houses in America (Roberts and Roberts105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
- commercial nursery after her uncle’s death. —Lacey Baradel and Elizabeth Athens Bartram, John, March 14, 1756, in a letter to Alexander Garden (Berkeley42 KB (5,973 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
- Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution, ed. Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), view on Zotero21 KB (2,827 words) - 12:44, January 21, 2021
- collection of aquatic plants.” Treatise writers and nurserymen such as James E. Teschemacher (1835), Robert Buist (1841), and Charles Wyllys Elliott (1848)60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
- Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), 103–104, view on Zotero; Joyce E. Chaplin, An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural15 KB (2,020 words) - 17:27, September 28, 2021
- intersecting in the manner of a Greek cross (c); of a martyr’s cross (d); of a star (e); or of a cross patée, or duck’s foot (patée d’oye) (f).” [Fig. 14] Webster80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
- Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
- c. 1844. Anonymous, Brother and Sister, c. 1845. F. F. Judd (artist), E. B. and E. C. Kellogg (lithographers), “Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Connecticut81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
- descriptions specified Doric (e.g., Centre Square in Philadelphia), Tuscan (e.g., The Woodlands near Philadelphia), or Corinthian (e.g., Ranlett’s design for41 KB (5,290 words) - 15:36, August 13, 2021
- Fisher, The Vale, 1820–25. Anonymous, St. Joseph’s near Emmettsburg, c. 1825. E. Mound (attr.), Nomini Hall, pre-1850. Frederick Graff, Plan of Lemon Hill20 KB (2,747 words) - 13:08, March 16, 2021
- summer (c): 4. Resting-places (d); and a centrical covered seat and retreat (e), which, being nearly equidistant from every point may be readily gained in67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
- Belfield, 1816. Anonymous, The Grotto, Andalusia, 1830–40. Photograph by Jack. E. Boucher. Anonymous, Grotto at the garden of Father George Rapp, c. 1820. Karen29 KB (3,925 words) - 16:49, March 29, 2021
- it was sometimes called a “moss house.” Both A. J. Downing (1849) and James E. Teschemacher (1835) used this term in describing rustic garden structures21 KB (2,795 words) - 15:21, November 12, 2020
- Massachusetts Horticultural Society (Boston: J. T. & E. Buckingham, 1831), view on Zotero. John E. Semmes, John H. B. Latrobe and His Times, 1803–189149 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- 19th century [Fig. 6]. In the May 1835 issue of Horticultural Register, James E. Teschemacher proposed situating oval beds, filled with herbaceous flowers85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
- Fourth Anniversary, October 3, 1832 (Cambridge, MA: E. W. Metcalf, 1832), view on Zotero. James E. Teschemacher, “On Horticultural Architecture,” Horticultural23 KB (3,312 words) - 10:24, August 6, 2020
- on trellises, so as to afford a pleasant retirement.” Teschemacher, James E., August 1, 1835, “Extracts from Foreign Publications” (Horticultural Register85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
- concealed from the lawn by thick groups of evergreen and deciduous trees. At e, is a picturesque orchard, in which the fruit trees are planted in groups instead78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
- Beautiful is nature or art obeying the universal laws of perfect existence (i.e. Beauty), easily, freely, harmoniously, and without the display of power. The75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
- Laurel Hill (1838) and Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery (1838). —Elizabeth Athens Story, Joseph, September 24, 1831, describing 'Mount Auburn Cemetery', Cambridge39 KB (4,654 words) - 00:35, August 25, 2021
- Part of Pennsylvania, from the Days of the Founders, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: E. Thomas, 1857), view on Zotero. Robert Beverley, The History and Present State54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021
- may be Chinese, Grecian, or in the taste of the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens.” [Fig. 9] Fithian, Philip Vickers, March 18, 1774, describing Nomini Hall72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
- and Wharf Belonging to Florian Charles Mey, Esq., 1797. The yard is labeled "E". William Russell Birch, View of the Chapel/Smokehouse at Springland, with70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
- may be Chinese, Grecian, or in the taste of the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens.” [Fig. 5 and 6] Constantia [Judith Sargent Murray], June 24, 1790, “Description44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
- ),” in Historical Collections (1844), 192. John Warner Barber (artist), S. E. Brown (engraver), “Central Part of Pittsfield, Mass.,” in Historical Collections39 KB (5,484 words) - 17:07, April 7, 2021
- Avenue Z X. The Mount F, is raised with the Earth that came out of the Canal E E, and its Slope H is planted with Hedges of different Ever-Greens, that rising88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
- was argued to have healthful effects. J. B. Bordley wrote in 1798 that “[e]very family in this fine climate ought to have its bath. . . Bathing moistens40 KB (5,911 words) - 10:29, February 12, 2021
- Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson, Landscape58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
- were chosen: HORACE GRAY, SAMUEL A. ELIOT, C. P. CURTIS, GEORGE DARRACOTT, J. E. TESCHEMACHER. “The amount already subscribed, is nearly $20,000. From the63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
- Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution, ed. Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010),58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
- most distinct [dahlias] in color and the largest in size; some of them Glob[e]-flowered, and Anemone-flowered, which are considered beautiful and rare.”24 KB (3,052 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
- divided into lots and sold them at auction for nearly $70,000. —Elizabeth Athens Anonymous, June 6, 1825, advertisement for Parmentier’s Horticultural and31 KB (3,711 words) - 21:03, August 25, 2021
- may be Chinese, Grecian, or in the taste of the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens. . . “This would be better. “the ground above the spring being very steep78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021
- continues to serve as a restorative natural site for Philadelphians. —Elizabeth Athens Shippen, William, Jr., December 18, 1787, in a letter to Thomas Lee Shippen20 KB (2,232 words) - 19:57, August 30, 2021
- also Lawler 2002, 18, view on Zotero. Smith 2014, 56, view on Zotero; Ronald E. Shaw, Canals For A Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790–1860 (Lexington16 KB (2,129 words) - 13:37, September 27, 2021
- great work has been effected,” the Boston Courier informed its readers, and “[e]very one among us will participate in the benefits thus secured to the dwellers28 KB (3,684 words) - 21:20, August 16, 2021
- sited on the west side of the Hudson River (also called Speranza, and now Athens, NY) commissioned by the Livingston family [See Figs. 2, 5-11]. The plans37 KB (4,574 words) - 17:22, September 28, 2021
- Military: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Philadelphia: E. M. Gardner, 1880), 1020, view on Zotero. McLean and Reinberger 1999, 41, view35 KB (4,404 words) - 17:33, August 26, 2021
- me, and I take pleasure in watching them grow and caring for them. . . . [E]very object here is dear to me because you used it.” Following her early death18 KB (1,876 words) - 14:28, August 26, 2021
- Collinson urged Bartram to ask Elizabeth for them instead, for “the Women Deny the[e] Nothing[;] thou hath such a[n] Art of wriggling into their Good Graces to18 KB (2,353 words) - 18:03, September 16, 2021
- Zotero. Sharon White, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008), 19, view on Zotero. John Fanning Watson16 KB (2,226 words) - 21:32, October 5, 2021
- which formed the atrium or court, and encompassed the sanctuary: that of Athens, built for the people to divert themselves in, and wherein the philosophers44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
- Pennsylvania farm with many fences [Fig. 4] and at the Franklin College campus in Athens, Georgia [Fig. 5]. Much garden knowledge was shared orally by gardeners160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021