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Landscape Architecture at "The Crest"
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Landscape Architecture at "The Crest"

PhotographerPhotographed by Harriet V. S. Thorne American, 1843 - 1926
Dateabout 1900
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 5/16 x 9 1/4in. (18.6 x 23.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 5/16 x 9 1/4in. (18.6 x 23.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation
DescriptionA lily pond and ornamental plant beds are in the foreground. In the background, there is a wooden fence and beyond that, trees.
Object number2011.344.982
InscribedVerso, top, in pencil: "Keep"
Top, in pencil: "Stew"NotesSubject Note: Probably taken at "The Crest," the Thorne family's name for their house, Thorncrest, in Millbrook, NY. Designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter for George Hunter Brown, it was built in 1867 and called Millbrook House. The grounds were landscaped by Olmsted & Vaux. It was razed in 1950.

--From a 1979 letter to Rollie McKenna from NYU Assistant Professor of Fne Arts Sarah Landau
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