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Identifier: americanestatesg00ferr (find matches)
Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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oo OSI OZ z < a: h (ll4l AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS The bedrooms, which fill the upper story, are fitted up with rare taste and fine indi-viduality of treatment. Much of their furniture has been especially designed for the particularrooms in which it is placed. Unlike a great covmtry house in the North, this vast Southernpalace has no outbuildings and subsidiary structures. One does not keep a stable of horses atPalm Beach, and one does not need elaborately planned and cultivated gardens to set off oneshouse. Plants and flowers, trees and shrubs, grow here unaided and with rare Southernprofuseness and rapidity. (lis)
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Iii6) The House of Henry W. Poor, Esq. Tuxedo, New York ^^3;;HE house of Mr. Poor is one of the most notalile at Tuxedo. It occupies a command- ^^^s ^S position on the summit of Tower Hill, and dominates the whole of Tuxedo Park. ^1 It is a beautiful house in the Jacobean style, stately and dignified in its )jarts, and admirably adapted to its position. No tower or pyramidal effect was needed to give emphasis to such a situation, but the roof line is very happily broken by the curved gable ends, the tops of which stand out free against the skv. It is U-shaped in ).)lan, thehollow containing the entrancefront being awa)- from the bluffon which the hovise is Iniilt.This front has a slightly ex-tended center, with an openporch below, and two shortwings, which create an opencourt. The house it built ofdark red and black l)rick, withstone trimmings. The mostelaborate feature of the exterioris at the main entrance—arichly carved frontispiece ofstone that verv happilv empha-sizes its purpo

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  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic____United_States
  • booksubject:Gardens
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Munn_and_Company
  • bookcontributor:Wellesley_College_Library
  • booksponsor:Wellesley_College_Library
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