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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th a flower garden beyond. The dining-room, like the others, is large, with wahs of green and old gold, very subduedin hue. The mantel is of black and white marble, with mirror, clock, and candelabra of theEmpire period. There are family portraits here, including one of Peter Cooper, and somegood old tapestries. Just outside a fountain plays gracefully on the terrace, and across thewaters of Hempstead Harbor and the Sound, which lie far below, is the dim outline of the West-chester coast. It is a scene of wonderful beauty and peace, an outlook on to Nature at herbest—a vision of undulating lawn, of fine forests, of distant water. There is a large swimming pool near the house, and the grounds contain two tenniscourts, one cemented and one grassed; and not far from the house, but enclosed within highhedges, is a garden of old-fashioned flowers. The property is a large one, comprising abouttwo hundred acres. A part of it was at one time owned by William Cullen Bryant, the poet. (■72)
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