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The homes of America : with one hundred and three illustrations (1879)

Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893 · New York : D. Appleton and Company, 549 and 551 Broadway · leaf 14

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re of Dutchand English architecture, is the Philipse manor-house, which l)elongs, properly COLONIAL PERIOD. 11 speaking, to two distiuct eras, 1682 and 1745. Tlie imposing soutli front, givenin the sketcli, represents tlie original mansion built by Frederick PLilipse, agenuine Hollander, who for a… … The Philipse Manor-House at Yonkers. the great elegant eastern front, mth its two porticoes and almost innumerableAvindows, and its dormitories in the gable-roof for fifty household servants,twenty of whom were negro slaves. The princely old edifice stood quite alone in the wilderness long…

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