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- 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
- on Husbandry and Rural Affairs (1801: 74–75) “The homestead includes this yard; together with its stackyard, the garden, nursery, orchard, and some acres63 KB (9,124 words) - 09:40, April 6, 2021
- three-story shop, granary, and residence for Jacob Quesnel, which also included a yard, to be located on the northeast corner of Market (now Broadway) and State37 KB (4,574 words) - 17:22, September 28, 2021
- greatly to moderate his horticultural enthusiasm. We passed through the poultry-yard, where the congregation of fowls exceeded in number and bustle any that I54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
- pretty—it stands at a short distance from the north Lodge, and the church yard is embowered with the foliage of tall locusts. . . . The gardener furnished116 KB (17,032 words) - 18:25, August 23, 2021
- He enclosed the barn and stable area and made a large farmyard and poultry yard. Irving also enclosed the 1 ½-acre rectangular kitchen garden and flower63 KB (8,985 words) - 19:09, August 30, 2021
- Date: 1710 Death Date: 1791 Used Keywords: Avenue, Obelisk, Orchard, Seat, Yard Other resources: Library of Congress Authority File; Export as RDF William9 KB (1,043 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
- 1820. Henrietta Augusta Drayton, Ashley Hall, river side with obelisk in yard, c. 1820. Mark Catesby, “Ilex cassine L. dahoon,” in The Natural History16 KB (1,658 words) - 22:13, July 21, 2021
- (American Journal of Insanity 4: 348) “East of the entrance is the private yard and residence of the Phy[sic]ian of the Institution, being the mansion house122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
- to the unhealthy, unattracted, and overcrowded conditions of older church yard burial plots inherited from the Colonial period.” Following the model of26 KB (3,170 words) - 16:03, August 19, 2021
- technology, and husbandry to landscape design. By including terms such as orchard, yard, lawn, and beehive, the project addresses a variety of gardens from across19 KB (2,729 words) - 18:14, August 30, 2021
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- frequently urged Marshall to visit him there (). While laying out the State House Yard in Philadelphia in 1785, the wealthy British merchant Samuel Vaughan turned113 KB (16,648 words) - 19:41, September 21, 2021
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- into the next, but yonder is a neat, pretty cottage, with flowers in the yard; I know they will be kind in there.” “But this is the biggest house,” urged160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021