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  • Conservatory
    amusement.” When architect Robert Mills proposed a building for the National Institute in Washington, DC, in 1841, he presented a Gothic revival museum with
    62 KB (9,081 words) - 13:02, April 1, 2021
  • Botanic garden
    Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 123) “[ Columbian Institute lottery for]
    63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
  • Robert Mills
    Robert Mills, Elevation of the South Front and Plan of the First Floor, National Institute, February 1841. Robert Mills, Sketch of the Washington Nat’l. Monumt
    31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
  • Canal
    specimen of correct taste and workmanship.” Columbian Institute, 1823, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 127) “The
    32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
  • Hothouse
    Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 123) “[Columbian Institute lottery for]
    51 KB (7,192 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
  • Greenhouse
    Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O'Malley 1989: 123) “[Columbian Institute lottery for]
    122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
  • Pond
    [[[jet]]] at the fountain considerably.” Columbian Institute, 1823, in a report describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 127)
    60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
  • National Mall
    the west. Both as a national icon and a civic space, the Mall is a key landmark of the nation’s capital. The origins of the National Mall can be traced
    34 KB (4,340 words) - 18:12, August 25, 2021
  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    Henry Latrobe, “Constitution of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences,” National Register [Washington, DC] 1 (1816): 405, view
    38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
  • Walk
    forest trees on the top of [an] eminence.” Columbian Institute, 1823, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 127) “Four
    146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
  • Columbian Institute
    Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences,” published by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, secretary of the Columbian Institute, in The National Register
    34 KB (4,708 words) - 21:36, August 16, 2021
  • Plantation
    scattered plantations in New-England have retained in great measure the national characteristics of their country. Those, by whom these plantations were
    67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021
  • Andrew Jackson Downing
    Capitol Grounds would connect to the national Botanic Garden, located on the site of the former Columbian Institute, and then, continuing westward, to “Fountain
    60 KB (7,882 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
  • Prospect
    describing a design for Elias Hasket Derby Farm, Peabody, MA (Peabody Essex Institute, Phillips Library, Derby Papers) “If there is any Prospect that is agreeable
    57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
  • Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
    (Philadelphia:1869, 10). "A history of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital," Penn Medicine Kirkbride's Hospital (National Park Service) “Moral treatment” grew
    33 KB (4,371 words) - 21:34, August 25, 2021
  • Public garden/Public ground
    Garden be properly laid out, and cultivated as a National Garden; to effect which important national objects, a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars will be
    42 KB (5,954 words) - 14:27, March 10, 2021
  • Square
    also the several squares which are intended for the Judiciary Courts, the National Bank, the grand Church, the play house, markets and exchange, offering
    67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
  • Mall
    mall was used for more “civilized” activities, such as promenading. The national Mall in Washington, DC, was the preferred site for “gainful recreation”;
    20 KB (2,767 words) - 10:38, April 6, 2021
  • Piazza
    Second, the associative values of refinement and domesticity, and even national progress, were read into the forms. In 1828, Frances Milton Trollope, the
    57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
  • Eminence
    Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Philip Alexius de Laszlo), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Rufus Porter, Landscape mural from Howe
    30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
  • Seat
    Cultural Landscape Report for Longfellow National Historic Site, History and Existing Conditions (Boston: National Park Service, North Atlantic Region, 1993)
    85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
  • Porch
    Second, the associative values of refinement and domesticity, and even national progress, were read into the forms. Treatises often used these terms interchangeably
    26 KB (3,352 words) - 10:14, April 6, 2021
  • Park
    DC: National Republic Publishing Company, 1950), view on Zotero. Charles Drayton, “The Diary of Charles Drayton I, 1806,” Drayton Hall: A National Historic
    87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
  • Pierre Pharoux
    Hooker and his contemporaries, 1796-1836, Fred L. Emerson Gallery-Albany Institute of History of Art, (Clinton, N.Y.: Trustees of Hamilton College; Amherst
    37 KB (4,574 words) - 17:22, September 28, 2021
  • Obelisk
    text). The Egyptian obelisk was appropriate for the expression of early national symbolism because of the equation of the newly formed United States with
    54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
  • Jet
    40 feet that would water surrounding gardens proposed for the Columbian Institute in Washington, DC. The height of the jet was a function of the fountain's
    23 KB (3,268 words) - 13:19, April 12, 2021
  • Bed
    Driver, George, 1838, describing his garden in Salem, MA (Peabody Essex Institute Phillips Library, Diaries of George Driver, MS 200, box 1, folder 1) “[6
    85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
  • Noah Webster
    resources: Library of Congress Name Authority File; Dictionary of National Biography; American National Biography; Export as RDF Noah Webster (October 16, 1758–May
    55 KB (8,122 words) - 21:48, October 5, 2021
  • Nursery
    nurseries on the national Mall in Washington, DC, document this effort. The 1808 Washington Exposition described a nursery on the national Mall where botanists
    63 KB (9,124 words) - 09:40, April 6, 2021
  • William Hamilton
    Founders Online, National Archives. Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives. Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives. Jefferson
    82 KB (12,725 words) - 21:28, September 15, 2021
  • Terrace/Slope
    Barney, Map of the Hampton Estate, 1843. Courtesy: Hampton National Historic Site, National Park Service. C. Bachman(n), New York, 1848. Anonymous, "Residence
    72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
  • Ephraim Chambers
    Other resources: Library of Congress Authority File; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Export as RDF Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–May 15, 1740), an English
    44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
  • John Bartram
    Library of Congress Authority File The Cultural Landscape Foundation American National Biography Bartram's Garden Quotation from John Bartram to Alexander Catcott
    39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
  • Washington Monument (Washington, DC)
    Washington Monument History and Culture (National Park Service); The Washington Monument is a towering obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, DC, that was
    16 KB (2,011 words) - 19:52, August 30, 2021
  • The Woodlands
    on Zotero Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives. Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives. MS letter in Rare Books and Manuscripts
    110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
  • Washington Monument (Baltimore, MD)
    in Robert Mills, Architect, ed. John M. Bryan (Washington, DC: American Institute of Architects Press, 1989), 150, view on Zotero. Hezekiah Niles, “The President
    17 KB (2,082 words) - 19:52, August 30, 2021
  • Fence
    Cultural Landscape Report for Longfellow National Historic Site, History and Existing Conditions, 2 vols. (Boston: National Park Service, North Atlantic Region
    105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
  • Riversdale
    Hattie Wyatt Caraway 1878–1950; Abraham Walter Lafferty 1875–1964; Maryland–National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Associated People: Benjamin Henry
    18 KB (1,876 words) - 14:28, August 26, 2021
  • Manasseh Cutler
    Map Division Washington, DC. Peter S. Onuf, “Manasseh Cutler,” American National Biography (online); Robert Elliot Brown, Manasseh Cutler and the Settlement
    44 KB (7,185 words) - 20:02, September 8, 2021
  • Shrubbery
    December 14, 1845, describing his nursery in New Jersey (Peabody Essex Institute, Phillips Library, Lee Family Papers, MS 129, box 1, folder 5) “I am a
    81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
  • Grove
    Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689 (Williamsburg, VA: Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1975)
    80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
  • Charles François Adrien le Paulmier, le Chevalier d’Annemours
    1, 1809 Used Keywords: Grove, Obelisk Other resources: Founders Online, National Archives; Export as RDF Charles François Adrien le Paulmier, le Chevalier
    15 KB (1,848 words) - 17:38, September 8, 2021
  • Bunker Hill Monument
    in 1817, of the newly elected president James Monroe—a symbolic act of national healing following the divisive War of 1812. In 1823 a group of prominent
    20 KB (2,630 words) - 21:42, August 16, 2021
  • Ashley Hall
    Sites, Research Manuscript Series, Book 184 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 1984), 57
    16 KB (1,658 words) - 22:13, July 21, 2021
  • David Hosack
    Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Volume I: Site History, Existing Conditions, and Analysis (Boston: U.S. Department of the Interior. National Park Service
    54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
  • Avenue
    Cultural Landscape Report for Longfellow National Historic Site, History and Existing Conditions, vol. 1 (Boston: National Park Service, North Atlantic Region
    89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
  • Elgin Botanic Garden
    June 25, 1821, Founders Online, National Archives. Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, July 12, 1821, Founders Online, National Archives. Horatio Gates Spafford
    92 KB (13,119 words) - 22:42, August 16, 2021
  • Writing the Landscape
    Landscape Report for Longfellow National Historic Site, vol. 1: Site History and Existing Conditions (Boston: National Park Service, North Atlantic Region
    160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021
  • Jane Colden
    “Digitalis,” “Lobelia blue Cardinal,” and “Veronica,” c. 1750s. American National Biography Online Jane Colden manuscript in the Natural History Museum,
    47 KB (6,542 words) - 20:02, September 8, 2021

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