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The Beautiful New House and Garden, Longport, New Jersey
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Category Built Environment, Current Design, Historic Context, Landscape Architecture, Location Location Location, New Jersey, Oldie But Goodie, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural Beauty, Beautiful Houses, Contemporary Architecture, Curator of Shit, Longport Houses, Longport NJ Houses, Modern Architecture, Modern Garden, Modern House and Garden, Modern Taste, New Buildings, Style
Posted by admin on January 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Located near the cross roads of Lincoln, Texas–in Lee County, Johann Leitko and his third wife, Mary Schneider Leitko, his two sons by Magdalena Fritsche Kasper Leitko, and Mary’s four children, the Schneiders, pose before the Leitko house at a time when people in Lee County, Texas were proud of their wood-frame dwellings. Wood-frame houses, [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Landscape Architecture, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Texas · Tags Center Gable Cottage, Curator of Shit, German Architecture, german architecture in texas, Germanic Houses, Johann Leitko, Lee County History, Leitko Family, Lincoln Texas, texas architecture, Texas Wood Frame Houses, Victorian Farm House, Victorian Vernacular, Wood Frame House
Posted by admin on August 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, Landscape Architecture, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, New Orleans, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags African American Cemeteries NOLA, african american culture, Cemetery Architecture, Cemetery New Orleans, Curator of Shit, folk cemetery, Historic Preservation, Holt Cemetery, memorial headstones, memorials, New Orleans Cemeteries, New Orleans History, NOLA cemeteries, Stonework
Posted by admin on June 1, 2012 · 2 Comments
Stephen Girard’s Farm House, Passyunk, Pennsylvania
Taken from an unidentified early twenieth century publication:
Stephen Girard’s Farm House
Possibly as a division from his thronging business cares, Stephen Girard bought seventy-five acres of ground in Passyunk in the year 1797, and there established a model farm. The location was “three miles from Philadelphia upon the Fort Mifflin road.” [...]
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Posted by admin on October 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
One of 33 circles in the District of Columbia, Chevy Chase Circle, unlike other circles in northwest Washington, D.C. was a later development of the Chevy Chase Land Company (Circa 1893), created to amplify the original city plan and add grandeur to the new residential area. The Chevy Chase Circle is located at the confluence [...]
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Posted by admin on July 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
False Front Building, Red River, New Mexico, 1934
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Posted by admin on July 21, 2011 · 8 Comments
The Glorious Evolution of Messeur Elisaeus von Seutter’s Pleasure Grounds at Ivy Cottage, Jackson, Mississippi
Elisaeus von Seutter, Photographer (1869-1909), Ivy Cottage and Pleasure Grounds, Jackson, Mississippi
Prior to the construction of Ivy Cottage, Elisaeus von Seutter (1827-1909) had made his way from Lindau, an island of Lake Constance in Germany. Born into an aristocratic family, he was [...]
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Posted by admin on July 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Washingtonia Trees, Olive Trees, Or Just Plain Street Trees at Chico, California
Street Trees, 5th Street, Chico, California, Circa 1915
This is a testament to the early commitment to landscape architecture in American cities and small towns. Also, this reflects the understanding that trees were important to the environment of even an urban area.
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, California, Cultural Landscapes, Green, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Urban Landscape · Tags Architectural History, City Trees, Curator of Shit, Historic Chico California, Historic Landscapes, Historic Preservation, History of Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Urban Landscape
Posted by admin on July 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, Distinctive Gem of Louisiana Plantations…
Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, 40136 Highway 942, Darrow, Louisiana
Among the jewels of Louisiana’s River Plantation, Houmas House Plantation and Gardens is certainly distinctive. Furthermore, the whole experience is among the most unusual of “house museums” in the United States. Since our agents have been to [...]
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Posted by admin on June 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Real Reason for Raised Beds, Ocean City, MD
1926 View of Raised Gardens and Lawns Along the Boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland
While “raised beds” have their reasons, here and there, they are largely a fashion trend among the those of the “Green” trend in today’s morally correct environmentally concious… Yet there was a time when such [...]
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