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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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IV. — CLERMONT. New England, in the old days before the growing up ofthe great cities, possessed many towns in and near whichdwelt people of polite cultivation and polished manners,whose sober, but often stately, mansions yet remain. In theseaboard towns especially, such as Portsmouth, Newburyport,Salem, and New Bedford, still stand numerous examples ofthis appropriate urban architecture, substantial buildings,with light and some space about them, and sometimes a court-yard enclosed by a high wall in the English fashion. AtKittery, at New Bedford, and elsewhere, not to speak ofnumerous, but fast disappearing examples near Boston, man-sions of this character may be seen standing well out of townin small parks of their own. It should be noted that thethree old Bostonian country-seats, already described in thisseries of brief papers, have been chosen only because of theirexhibiting more than usual breadth of landscape setting,combined with more, than usual excellence of general design.
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^:t. 29) CLERMONT ON THE HUDSON 251 Passing now from New England to New York, from theregion of small hills, ponds, and streams which surroundsBoston to the prospect-commanding banks of the broad Hud-son, and again selecting ancient country-seats which excel inpoint of design, we come first to Montgomery Place, atBarrytown. Barrytown is itself but a very small village, about ninetymiles from New York and some fifty from Albany; and it isso surprising to find here an old seat of the first class, thatthis number of the series must be devoted to an explanationof the fact. The Hudson Eiver naturally attracted settlersvery early. The Dutch established a trading-post at Beaver-wyck even before they built their fort at New Amsterdam;and here the Van Rensselaers held sway as Patroons duringmany years. After the English gained possession of thecountry, and renamed the chief towns New York and Albany,the river lands began to be parcelled out among such personsas applied for them, and could pers

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