Front matter
Reading edition
Contents
Introduction 9
Monticello 17
The Haunted House, New Orleans 29
Doughoregan Manor 43
The Jumel Mansion 55
Mount Vernon 69
The Quincy Homestead 83
The Timothy Dexter Mansion 95
The Kendall House 107
The Longfellow House 121
Cliveden 135
The Wentworth Mansion 145
The Pringle House 159
Appendix 169
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MONTICELLO
“Mr. Jefferson,” said one of Rochambeau’s aides, “is the first American who has consulted the fine arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.” With no continental travel for background, with only the meager pictorial record of the period to draw upon, he somehow responded to the simplicity and useful beauty of the classics, and translated it to his castle.
FAMOUS COLONIAL HOUSES
BY PAUL M. HOLLISTER
Illustrated by JAMES PRESTON
With an Introduction by JULIAN STREET
DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Publishers PHILADELPHIA, MCMXXI
Copyright, 1921, by David McKay Company
Illustrations especially engraved and printed by the Beck Engraving Company, Philadelphia
TO MARION