American estates and gardens
A survey of large country houses and their grounds by architectural writer Barr Ferree, published in New York by Munn in 1906 for wealthy clients, architects, and readers of Scientific American's building press. Halftone photographs show columned porches, terraces, clipped hedges, pergolas, reflecting pools, and shingled facades among trees, offering period garden plans, stonework detail, and formal landscape geometry.
