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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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248 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1907
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the deer which browse beside it, the bears which lap its cool waters, and here and there a stray fisherman, the lonely stream ripples and eddies and murmurs in utter solitude. " You fellers from the country—you keep away from town, If you don't want to unsettle things and get us upside down; For you always leave a memory of the meadows and the stream, And I straightway get to wishin' and to fishin' in my dreams." The "Wedding of the Waters" takes place in front of "Moonhaw Lodge," where two of these streams greet each other and pass on as one. It took my host, the Hon. Charles T. Coutant, of Kings- ton, N. Y., in his wanderings through the mountains to dis- cover this great beauty spot in nature, and as he was so greatly impressed with its infinite treasures of natural beauty, he immediately purchased the property in its entirety, and decided to convert it into a handsome mountain park to exceed in beauty anything of its kind in that celebrated sec- tion. He has built roads, cobblestone and rustic bridges, and has thrown rough stone walls across the streams to retard some of their rapid progress, thereby forming myriads of small waterfalls, terminating into a pool beyond the bridge, at the foot of the glen. " Not real still stillness but just the trees' Low whisperings or the hum of bees, A brook's faint babbling over stones In strangely, softly tangled tones." "Moonhaw Lodge" is built upon the original camping site of the old Moonhaw chief. Just before reaching the Lodge, one stops and admires the great bridge, which is built of selected cobblestone taken from the grounds of the estate. On one side of the bridge is a wall fountain supplied by a cooling stream, which affords water for beast, bird and man. This cobblestone work leads along in the form of a fence to the steps that follow up to the Lodge, which is perched on an Incline at the fork of the road and rivers. The Lodge has a cobblestone chimney built on the exterior of the building, which Is the chief feature of the outside walls. The exterior walls are covered with matched sheathing, good building paper and shingles left to weather finish, while the trim- mings are painted red. The roof is covered with shingles and stained a deep Indian red. After passing across the piazza, which extends across the front of the Lodge, the entrance Is reached. The Interior Is arranged with one large room in the front of the house and a kitchen placed in the rear, while the second floor contains the sleeping-rooms.

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