Transcriber’s Note
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Table of Contents added by Transcriber.
Contents
| Introduction | 9 |
| Monticello | 17 |
| The Haunted House, New Orleans | 29 |
| Doughoregan Manor | 43 |
| The Jumel Mansion | 55 |
| Mount Vernon | 69 |
| The Quincy Homestead | 83 |
| The Timothy Dexter Mansion | 95 |
| The Kendall House | 107 |
| The Longfellow House | 121 |
| Cliveden | 135 |
| The Wentworth Mansion | 145 |
| The Pringle House | 159 |
| Appendix | 169 |
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MONTICELLO
“Mr. Jefferson,” said one of Rochambeau’s aides, “is the first American who has consulted the fine arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.”With no continental travel for background, with only the meager pictorial record of the period to draw upon, he somehow responded to the simplicity and usefulbeauty of the classics, and translated it to his castle.
FAMOUS
COLONIAL
HOUSES
BY
PAUL M. HOLLISTER
Illustrated by
JAMES PRESTON
With an Introduction by
JULIAN STREET