How to make a country place; an account of the successes and the mistakes of an amateur in thirty-five years of farming, building and development: together with a practical plan for securing a home and an independent income, starting with small capital (1914)
Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway. [from old catalog] · New York, Orange Judd company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 161
reshold. Within an hours drive or a fifteen minutes motor trip fromHillcrest Manor, a rough, wooded tract edges on one side a smalllake, on the other the Sound. Through this tract was built awinding road, fringed by white oak, chestnut, cedar, hemlock, birchand beech, leading to the Sound. It is… … DRACHENFELS. The house itself is baronial in appointments and decorations.A steep driveway leads to a porte cochere on the east. The oakendoor is six feet wide, with heavy iron hinges and a knocker from anancient castle on the Rhine. Stepping through the doorway, onestands in a beamed and columned…
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