Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet (find matches)
Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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enjoy—certainly one of the loveliestin America. From 1770 to 1798, when he left it for debtors prison, itwas the home of Robert Morris, one of the most famous financiers of theRevolution, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Dec-laration of Independence, who was ruined by speculation in Westernlands. Morris lived and entertained with lavish elegance, bred bloodedstock on his 300-acre estate and filled his hothouses with what weresaid to be the first lemon trees brought to Philadelphia, giving themansion its name. Washington, Hamilton, Lafayette and Jeffersonwere frequent visitors; the last, when he came, spending much timeinspecting the livestock—and later receiving at Monticello from hispolitical enemy, Morris, a splendid imported Spanish ram. Purchasedin 1844 by the city of Philadelphia, the Lemon Hill estate became thenucleus from which Fairmount Park has reached its present size. Vhe curving staircase leads up pasta replica of Houdons famous bust of Jefferson.
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Lowest of the three large elliptical chambers, the dining room is furnished in Hepplewhite, the table set with a mirrored centerpiece from France,

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