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Winter is almost over, even in Maine--knock on wood--and thoughts are turning again to outdoor pleasures The tradition of a folly or gazebo as a garden retreat, goes back at least to the gardens of ancient Rome. Here in New England, with our short summers, the idea of a shady retreat, a place to enjoy a cool refreshment on a warm afternoon holds great appeal.. A summerhouse or gazebo is a pleasant spot from which to contemplate the garden or view, and simultaneously, can be beautiful feature or eye catcher in the landscape. A rare few survive from the 18th century here in New England. They are usually enclosed, and though made of wood, and on a smaller scale, recall their cousins on grand estates in England. It was not unusual for these structures to be placed on a small artificial 'mount' in the English after European fashion. Unlike England, with its large preserved country estates, America has always been a country on the move, and most of the earliest that survive do so because they have been moved from their original settings. An early survivor is the 1766 summerhouse from the garden of Abraham Redwood in Newport RI, erected long before that seaport city became the most luxurious resort of the gilded age. In the 19th century, it was moved to the grounds of the exquisite Palladian library that he endowed in the mid-18th century, the first library in America. The chaste octagonal facade is of wood, rusticated and surfaced with sand in the paint to emulate stone. At the Isaac Royall house in Medford, Massachusetts, was this grand affair topped by a statue of Mercury, built in the mid-18th century, on an artificial mount that hid an ice house below it in Capt. Royall's pleasure grounds. By the early 20th century, his grounds were swallowed up by development, and all that survives of the structure is single arched window frame. The most exquisite to survive from the 18th century is the Derby summerhouse, designed by the great Salem, Massachusetts carver/architect Samuel McIntire for Capt. Derby's summer farm in Danvers Massachusetts in 1795. Elias Hasket Derby was a merchant of great wealth, the Donald Trump of his day, but obviously with far better taste. Topping the roof were carved figures representing the Reaper (as in Harvest, not Grim) , and the Milkmaid. A young lady who visited the estate in 1802 wrote of going upstairs to the room above, “The air from the windows is always pure and cool and the eye wanders with delight over the beautiful landscape below…The room is ornamented with some Chinese figures and seems calculated for serenity and peace.” The Endicott family enjoy their re-located summerhouse.In the late 19th century, the summerhouse was near ruin, and development pressures were closing in on the Derby farm. Derby's great-granddaughter, Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott, rescued the it, seen on its original foundation in the upper photo, and had it moved to her nearby country estate, where it still graces the rose garden designed for it, now open to the public. Okay, now bear with me for a second, for you know how I like all the dots connected, and this part requires your full attention. Already in the garden of the Endicott estate was a gazebo built in 1840 by Mrs. Endicott's grandfather, Joseph Peabody, from whom she inherited the estate. Upon the death of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Endicott, Jr., a nephew inherited the Peabody gazebo and moved it to his property on Martha's Vineyard, where it sits to this day. In 1989, the Danvers Historical Society erected a replica of this structure, above, in the original location. Email me if you need a re-cap. As I've mentioned before, we really like moving buildings around here in New England, and sometimes a playbook is required to keep it all straight. McIntire also designed a smaller, no less exquisite summerhouse for another member of the Derby family, now also traveled from its original location. It remained on the Derby, later Beebe, farm in Wakefield until moved to the grounds of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, where its setting on a small artificial mount has been carefully recreated. This late 18th century landscape painting by the Reverend Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine shows a typical New England town, probably Bucksport, in the background, while in the foreground, a family enjoys tea by a domed gazebo. It is likely that this gazebo never existed there, but is an artistic conceit inspired by an English print. High Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is one of the handsomest streets of New England, lined with grand three story Federal mansions. In the early to mid-19th century, a local tradition of lattice summerhouses, often with 'gothick' touches arose, and several examples are still in situ. Here, above and below, in early photographs published in 1917 in Architectural Review are two of them. The New England tradition of save and recycle is at work here. The octagon feature on the roof of example above in Newburyport was the originally the sounding board over a pulpit, salvaged when an early meeting house was being remodeled. In rural New Ipswich New Hampshire, an impossibly light summerhouse is at summit of a mount, framed by an allee of maples, at Forest Hall, built as a wedding present for Charles Barrett and his bride. Those of us who can happily sit through Merchant-Ivory costume dramas will remember this as the location for The Europeans. A Gothic Revival summerhouse in a garden at the childhood home of artist Waldo Pierce, friend of Hemingway, in Bangor, Maine. As the neighborhood deteriorated in the mid-twentieth century the gazebo was rescued by the Hutchins family, and moved to their estate at the edge of town, where it improbably, dreamily, appeared as an exotic apparition above I-95 for many years, but is now, I believe, lost. In Belfast, Maine, sits the magnificent Joseph White house, a Greek Revival masterpiece by Calvin Ryder. The house sits on a pie shaped lot at the juncture of two streets, and at the apex of the triangle, anchoring the street corner behind a classical iron fence, is this romantic example from the 1850s. A leitmotif of the Victorian age was that more was never enough, and here we have a gazebo as observatory tower seen in the 1880's on the J.S. Potter estate in Framingham, Massachusetts. Potter was a self made businessman, and his garden was a veritable amusement park of garden structures. By the late 19th century, there were conflicting view on landscape design in New England---the Arcadian ideal, as espoused by Frederick Law Olmstead was one. It can be seen in this example, with grotto under, designed by the great man himself at Moraine Farm, built for the Phillips family in the 1880s. Another trend was European style grandeur and formality, ever the means to display wealth. The apogee was reached with this pair of French classical limestone tea houses in the formal garden of The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Horace Trumbauer for coal magnate Edwin Berwind. This photograph from a 1931 National Geographic shows the high level of maintenance that once characterized these estate gardens. A quarter century separates these structures from the Olmstead teahouse at Moraine Farm. In Bar Harbor, Maine, the natural and the classical were brought together by this domed gazebo, situated in a carefully groomed naturalistic landscape recalling the paintings of Claude Lorrain. Although built of wood, this lovely structure improbably survived the 1947 forest fire that consumed the other buildings on the estate where it stood, including the enormous main house designed by R.H. Robertson, a mere two hundred feet away. This picture was taken in 1971, showing the effects of 25 years of abandonment in grounds gone wild. I believe the gazebo no longer exists. In the early 20th century, artist turned architect Charles Adams Platt, back from Italy, electrified America with a new sort of garden, based on Italian precedent, less grand and formal than the French beaux arts, gardens and house fully integrated with the rooms of the house. The garden with which he made this auspicious debut was at Faulkner Farm, the Sprague estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. The summerhouse at the terminus of the dream-like formal garden, embraced on either side by a pergola, was one of the most admired of its day. Live or Memorex? Will the real McIntire summerhouse please step forward? And finally, we travel more than full circle, back to Newport, Rhode Island. A mere two blocks from the Redwood garden house where we started, this tea house was designed by architectural historian Fiske Kimball, later director of the Philadelphia Museum, for Miss Martha Codman on the grounds of her summer home, Berkeley villa. In case you're rubbing your eyes in disbelief, and about to say, 'That stupid Dilettante, he's inserted the wrong picture", guess again. It is a copy of the Derby summerhouse by McIntire. Miss Codman was also a descendant of Derby, and a family feud was precipitated when she copied the summerhouse for her own garden without the permission of its owner, her cousin Mrs. Endicott. Actress Jane Pickens, later Mrs. Walter Hoving, purchased Berkeley Villa from the estate of Martha Codman.Here she is seen in front of the doppelganger teahouse, with butler in the background waiting to serve afternoon tea. photograph by from Town & Country,
LOVE this one- a mix of recycled stock lumber and pallet wood, and the multi-pane door just makes it! From Greendiary.com photo from OrangeFarmHouse.nl NOT a tiny house, well, I suppose it kinda is, but I've been on a pallet kick lately and also liked this photo...I do run another blog called www.fortaday.com afterall.....pallet reconstruction, or repurposing, is also something we'll mess around with a little at our Wilmington, NC Three Day Tiny House Building Workshop....April 26th-28th- can't wait! Anyway, this is a GREAT example where a little creativity, thrift, and elbow grease (and not even much of it!) will beat out most store bought clubhouses and forts every time. What's best about this is that its made from FREE, recycled materials that were bound for the dump otherwise! You could ALSO EASILY cover this in planks, tin, corrugated poly roofing, or plywood, and make it a neat little shed for your yard as well. And here are a FEW MORE.....some great ideas, and greater execution! www.readersheds.co.uk The bold trim really makes this simple structure stand out- from cabbagedon.com A lil' sloppy and lopsided....or "slopsided", but fun! From growsouth.wordpress.com If you like recycled material projects and want to read on a few other concepts using pallets and other assorted free items to build micro structures, do check out my "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks" book.... -Derek "Deek" Diedricksen
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Designed by Andrea Filippone for AJF Design, this simple yet structured landscape blends effortlessly with its surroundings…stone walls and paths compliment the greenery allowing the white fa…
When we wrote about and photographed the multiple sheds at Kathy and Ed Fries’s garden outside Seattle, we titled the chapter “Suburban Follies.” I mean “follies” in a good way because their landscape is dotted with a colony of amazing, fanciful structures. Just when I think Kathy has exhausted all of her creative brainstorms, she […]
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Before we get going about design I had some criticism about using the word "ghetto" in my last post. While it is never my intention to offend anyone.... I now realize that I actually misspoke, not using the term accurately. Ghetto: A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.[1] The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated. It is actually where someone lives......what I meant to say was this: "My office looks like a Mess: a dirty or untidy state of things or of a place. "she made a mess of the kitchen" synonyms: untidiness, disorder, disarray, clutter, shambles, jumble, muddle, chaos "please clear up the mess" I have learned so much since I started blogging, that sometimes I am unintentionally insensitive and, that learning the definition of certain words is definitely a plus. Please forgive..... I have blabbed on and on about this project but seriously people I still drop my jaw every time I am over there and see more updates. While the main house is pretty much done there is still work to do on the pool house. And the "pigeonniere's". Yeah....that is what I said? Huh? I had to look that one up. Actually it is french for Dovecote which is essentially a house for pigeons. Gah....I have been letting my pigeons just hang out in the backyard. I am so apathetic about things right? Mcalphine/tankersley Evergreen Plantation/Louisiana Pinterest Although this one is going to be a garden shed.... Wait until this beauty is finished....[there are 2 of them!] Pool/guest house. Yeah....it's just the perfect size for me:) Complete with a garage door. Starting with kitchen.... The Hicks Pendants And these brass strips in the subway tile.... Fireplace..... Bedroom Bathroom All white except for this..... The floors..... Gonna have fun decorating this space. "There is too much white" said Sherry..... never. This is a shot of the back of the house....the master bedroom. Are you ready to burn your house down.....hahaha. I know. Yet..... I am just happy to have a house. Thanksgiving week.....enjoy yourself my friends! Be thankful. I sure am. Shagrateful
Houmas House Two story hexagonal brick and stucco structures built as bachelor's quarters, presumably to keep the peace and quiet in the main house, consisting of a sitting room downstairs and an upstairs bedroom. Library of Congress, Richard Koch photographer Measuring the east garconiere for the Historic American Buildings Survey, April 1936.
Andrea Rugg is a commercial photographer in Minneapolis, Minnesota who specializes in architectural photography, interiors photography, exteriors photography, location photography, product photography, landscape architecture photography, gardens photography, and lifestyle photography
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