tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post1184873036595700231..comments2024-03-14T04:01:02.005-04:00Comments on THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE: FAULKNER FARMThe Down East Dilettantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-19210621914968097932017-10-12T05:12:28.303-04:002017-10-12T05:12:28.303-04:00Jual Obat Aborsi, Klinik Aborsi, Jual Obat Cytotec...<a href="http://aborsi-tuntas.com/" rel="nofollow">Jual Obat Aborsi</a>, <a href="http://aborsi-tuntas.com/" rel="nofollow">Klinik Aborsi</a>, <a href="http://aborsi-tuntas.com/" rel="nofollow">Jual Obat Cytotec</a>, <a href="http://aborsi-tuntas.com/" rel="nofollow">Obat Aborsi</a>, <a href="http://aborsi-tuntas.com/" rel="nofollow">Obat Penggugur Kandungan</a>obat aborsi ampuhhttp://aborsi-tuntas.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-71478894538737911312014-10-21T19:00:00.903-04:002014-10-21T19:00:00.903-04:00Thank you for this great information. I discovere...Thank you for this great information. I discovered this amazing place today by pure chance through a friend who is now at Springhouse. In the fall foliage it was magical.Sally Pinkasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-78825236059218869632014-03-07T18:29:48.793-05:002014-03-07T18:29:48.793-05:00Frederick Law Olmsted**Frederick Law Olmsted**Ryan from JPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-10240938586078464602012-04-10T16:45:22.967-04:002012-04-10T16:45:22.967-04:00Very much enjoyed your articles about the Brandege...Very much enjoyed your articles about the Brandegee estate (clearly the source of the new Juno statue making a big splash at the MFA) and on the gardens at Weld. Just fyi, Olmsted as in Frederick Law Olmsted is spelled without an "a". It's like fingernails on a black board to see it with an "a". Best wishes.Katherine Greenoughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10508629342825611979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-25590493586531307442011-02-04T01:16:07.035-05:002011-02-04T01:16:07.035-05:00Sadly, the Boston police department mounted unit i...Sadly, the Boston police department mounted unit is no more, having been dismantled due to budget cuts in June 2009. Some of the steeds are now enjoying life on the Cape as part of the Plymouth PD.<br />http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/27/new_plymouth_mounted_patrol_adopts_bostons_police_horses/?page=fullGina Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-68386226506917449702011-01-24T12:40:23.939-05:002011-01-24T12:40:23.939-05:00Dear DED, what a wonderful post! The Faulkner Farm...Dear DED, what a wonderful post! The Faulkner Farm, now hidden behind the ugly Faulkner Hospital, is only a few minutes from my house. I had the thrill many years ago of attending a seminar series called "The Country House in American" by SPNEA given in the house's ballroom and remembered spending every coffee break dreaming of restoring the Italian garden. Sad how it's been left to slowly decay. I drive by Allandale Farm every day on my way to work and you can just see the house on the hill far beyond. What a truly American interpretation of a great European house and garden! Platt was a true master. My father often spoke of the house while I was growing up since as an officer of the BPD assigned to Jamaica Plain, he so enjoyed visiting the horse stables. Coincidentally, I received the book you mentioned this Christmas. What a treat! M.Michele from Bostonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-22577249262332220872011-01-23T12:09:36.384-05:002011-01-23T12:09:36.384-05:00What a time and place to have lived a (well-placed...What a time and place to have lived a (well-placed) life!Paul Gervais de Bédéehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483589339393580019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-27769350647413070182011-01-22T12:12:53.680-05:002011-01-22T12:12:53.680-05:00Echoing Topaz! And with so many thanks for so many...Echoing Topaz! And with so many thanks for so many chewey riches, my brother the landscape architect adds his as well, it's just something ELSE to consider the 12 oxen et al who managed to set Juno dead center below the scrolled header of the iron gateway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-30733668078688113332011-01-21T22:53:09.176-05:002011-01-21T22:53:09.176-05:00I feel like I've been transported to the set o...I feel like I've been transported to the set of "The Age of Innocence." I expect Winona Ryder set upon me with her crazy dead eyes demanding to know if her bonnet is straight.Raina Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01095323923070587294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-61100524047140198872011-01-20T23:35:25.616-05:002011-01-20T23:35:25.616-05:00Down East, your post are so well researched and de...Down East, your post are so well researched and detailed I am truly humbled. <br /><br />The history of this country in the building of these grand estates is so enlightening.<br /><br />xoxo<br />Karena<br />Art by KarenaKarenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05206642885608991170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-74854593165028196152011-01-20T22:18:19.026-05:002011-01-20T22:18:19.026-05:00Down East -
Great post! Can't get enough of P...Down East -<br />Great post! Can't get enough of Platt's work.<br /><br />P.S. And you are right on the Casino. Definitely there.ChipSFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533749227364674468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-44287963404132530522011-01-20T18:24:39.484-05:002011-01-20T18:24:39.484-05:00Topaz, thanks, you've made my day, even if I s...Topaz, thanks, you've made my day, even if I shortened yours...<br /><br />Anonymous, it's a handsome building<br /><br />Ancient, According to Alan Emmett, the architect's account books show expenditures of $182,000 on the original house, terrace, stable and iron gates as of 1896 (Money really did go sooo much further in those days. The cost of the gardens is lost, and the 1903-1905 alterations to the house came to more than the entire original construction costs eight years before. I believe that one multiplies by a factor of 26 for cost in today's dollars.The Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-17214444203753517342011-01-20T17:55:51.295-05:002011-01-20T17:55:51.295-05:00TDED --
Did you run across an estimate of how muc...TDED --<br /><br />Did you run across an estimate of how much of the Sprague's $30 million this little place consumed?The Ancientnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-12521761788265742152011-01-20T14:31:23.379-05:002011-01-20T14:31:23.379-05:00I'm obsessed with the carriage house.....I'm obsessed with the carriage house.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-63884116186938970482011-01-20T13:09:04.493-05:002011-01-20T13:09:04.493-05:00I should know better now than to read your blog in...I should know better now than to read your blog in the morning when I need to get things done because there is really no such thing as a "quick look." And then, even worse -- or better, actually -- when it says "You might also like:" I always do. Fascinating stuff.Topazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15514508159702613771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-60159128869437224462011-01-20T12:30:20.595-05:002011-01-20T12:30:20.595-05:00If only modern money would have such taste.If only modern money would have such taste.balsamfirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12347379810451503618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-25256021669875348692011-01-20T12:17:08.823-05:002011-01-20T12:17:08.823-05:00Devoted: Isn't the roof reduction a mystery? ...Devoted: Isn't the roof reduction a mystery? <br /><br />Marianne, Larz Anderson park was the estate of Mrs. Brandegee's cousin, and the subject of my next post<br /><br />Home, Let's hope so. <br /><br />Gilded Age:, I know I almost went overboard on the pictures, but I am a sucker for before and after. I'm sorry though, that there were no interior views readily available, though, for they truly are eye-popping in their ecelecticism.<br /><br />Toby: It wouldn't appear so, would it? Mrs. Brandegee appears to be a model of enlightened patron with deep pockets.The Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-81667459598685652972011-01-20T11:32:01.969-05:002011-01-20T11:32:01.969-05:00Marvelous stuff here. It was an age when rich Amer...Marvelous stuff here. It was an age when rich Americans looked to European examples, and somehow<br />were able to bring it off as a thing above and beyond pastiche. Are there billionaires today who know of the Villa Gamberaia and why it matters?Toby Worthingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887066048372484464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-86284454613806817772011-01-20T10:53:31.953-05:002011-01-20T10:53:31.953-05:00Wonderful Post! So complete!
Love all the B&W ...Wonderful Post! So complete!<br />Love all the B&W photos mixed in with the color and current pictures.Gary Lawrancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375743235145440915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-73803520000863967702011-01-20T10:49:36.792-05:002011-01-20T10:49:36.792-05:00Great sighs heard (muffled by snow) from Kansas. S...Great sighs heard (muffled by snow) from Kansas. So great a notion: a nation called to gardening. Amazing this much land has remained a working farm. Developers must have developed decades of ulcers over this.home before darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272062955786414729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-36077280059173453172011-01-20T09:19:38.047-05:002011-01-20T09:19:38.047-05:00Thank you so much for sharing this story. My dad ...Thank you so much for sharing this story. My dad grew up in Jamaica Plain. As a young girl I would visit a public park near the Allendale Farm, called Lars Anderson...a beauty. As a working girl, i would cut through the surrounding neighborhoods to get to work in Boston. Thank you for enlightening me on the history of my old stomping grounds.Mariannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04865152301914642301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-88797322162362667562011-01-20T08:33:12.338-05:002011-01-20T08:33:12.338-05:00What a fascinating story. I am crushed to learn t...What a fascinating story. I am crushed to learn that the enchanting casino was altered, however.The Devoted Classicisthttp://tdclassicist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com