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Villas and cottages (1874)

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 210

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ll, in the neighborhood of Newburgh.The location has much individual character, and thewhole property is well adapted for a country seat.Such a spot, however, is scarcely appreciated in thevicinity of the Hudson River, for an extended waterview is, under such circumstances, thought an… … PLAN OF CHAMBERS. PLAN OF ROOFS. part of the country altogether. The site for the houseis on an elevated space of table land. On the verandafront the hillside descends abruptly and picturesquelysome sixty or eighty feet within full view of the drive 206 VILLAS AND COTTAGES. road, and as this steep…

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