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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A Nearer View of the Portico could gaze upon twelve ofthe richest counties in Vir-ginia. The mansion designed byJefferson and erected underhis personal supervision hasthe plan of a gigantic letterE, the wings opening west-ward. To the north andsouth are walks or prome-nades supported by masonrystructures containing ser-vants quarters and storage-rooms. Masonry-wings ofexactly this same characterwere provided for in theoriginal plans for the WhiteHouse at Washington in theshaping of which Jeffersonhad a hand, and it is thesewings or terraces whichwere restored during therecent reconstruction of thePresidential Mansion. On the edge of the lawnbefore the house at Monti-cello, and at the supremepoint of vantage for thesplendid semi-circular pano-rama, stands the little build-ing used by Jefferson as astudy. This is connected
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The Slaves Quarters and Jeffersons Office Building 66 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1907 with the mansion by a walk.In the rear of the house is alawn of three acres, withstately old trees all about it.Many of them were set outby Jefferson himself, andnot a few were his specialimportations from Europe,these being, in some in-stances, the pioneers of somepopulous species on this sideof the Atlantic. Conspic-uous among the landscape-gardening features are theremarkable rectangularflower-beds arranged b yEdmund Bacon, who wasfor twenty years Jeffersonsoverseer. The Monticello mansionhas a Doric order of Romanarchitecture, with heavy cor-nices and massive balus-trades. The interior is inthe Ionic style. The fronthall recedes six feet withinthe wall of the building, anda portico projects abouttwenty-five feet, with stonepillars and steps. Thehouse was thirty-two yearsin building. Begun in 1770, it was not completed until 1802, and cost, according to theaccount-books of its famous arc

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  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:106
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