tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post7518151670079686517..comments2024-03-14T04:01:02.005-04:00Comments on THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE: LAND'S ENDThe Down East Dilettantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-24236705220919136162020-01-13T19:50:10.431-05:002020-01-13T19:50:10.431-05:00There is an error in attributing the original prop...There is an error in attributing the original property owner to the brother of Julia Ward Howe. Her brother was the NYC lobbyist Samuel Ward. However, he did not acquire this property. Instead it was Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907). a Bostonian financier and literary friend of Longfellow and Emerson, who developed the property at about the same time as he was purchasing several Commonwealth Avenue properties in the new Back Bay. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09101770503578574239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-88280180741607639442012-12-19T18:59:56.597-05:002012-12-19T18:59:56.597-05:00I love old retro homes. They just don't build ...I love old retro homes. They just don't build homes like they use to. Mikehttp://www.rawhoney.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-32538032648321290042011-06-06T08:45:08.885-04:002011-06-06T08:45:08.885-04:00The garden at The Whim is charming! Thanks again....The garden at The Whim is charming! Thanks again.The Devoted Classicisthttp://tdclassicist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-15890863526051774562011-06-05T22:22:01.571-04:002011-06-05T22:22:01.571-04:00Down East & Ancient -
Thanks for the Land'...Down East & Ancient -<br />Thanks for the Land's End pictures!<br /><br />Quite a contrast with Breakwater (& you are right so much lesser-know I hadn't even heard of it). It is good to see that Land's End has survived as well as it has.ChipSFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533749227364674468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-74623489366131578972011-06-05T17:08:26.986-04:002011-06-05T17:08:26.986-04:00One last thing: The carriage house has been made i...One last thing: The <a href="http://wikimapia.org/13900794/The-Whim" rel="nofollow">carriage house</a> has been made into a residence, now occupied by Oatsie Charles, who previously lived at Land's End. (Her daughter and son-in-law live there now.)<br /><br />Oatsie's garden looks like <a href="http://ledgeandgardens.typepad.com/ledge_and_gardens/2011/02/the-whim-newport-ri-newport-secret-garden-tour.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-86870138201978169482011-06-05T16:48:17.607-04:002011-06-05T16:48:17.607-04:00If you walk past the house a couple hundred feet, ...If you walk past the house a couple hundred feet, <a href="http://www.cliffwalk.com/360/360LedgeRoad.htm" rel="nofollow">this</a> is your view.The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-40633890295152762172011-06-05T16:27:52.108-04:002011-06-05T16:27:52.108-04:00Delightful Newport posts all around. I have always...Delightful Newport posts all around. I have always been rather partial to the much maligned taste of poor Edith's mother, Lucretia Rhinelander Jones - pictures of her Newport and New York homes I find charming . . . (don't tell Ms. Wharton). KDMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-64421305471635950512011-06-05T16:02:14.342-04:002011-06-05T16:02:14.342-04:00D.E.D., thanks to you and The Ancient for such an ...D.E.D., thanks to you and The Ancient for such an interesting post. The retracted porte cochere is indeed aesthetically more pleasing even if less functional. It still looks like a comfortable house, and still attractive despite some Wharton/Codman loses. (I won't go into the dueling floral fabrics on sofas in the Anthony Browne scheme, though).The Devoted Classicisthttp://tdclassicist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-58631711187985044992011-06-05T15:57:28.857-04:002011-06-05T15:57:28.857-04:00Not an entirely successful renovation of the house...Not an entirely successful renovation of the house by Mrs. Wharton and Mr. Codman, in my view. I actually prefer the original. And that's from someone who is a great admirer of both the lady and her tastemaker architect. It appears to me like so many "tastefully" Colonialized Victorians one sees. But better, of course!Reggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185045903146972312.post-22691028680048248832011-06-05T14:03:56.190-04:002011-06-05T14:03:56.190-04:00Notice how Codman's rather ungainly porte-coch...Notice how Codman's rather ungainly porte-cochère has been retracted in the current version of the house.The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.com