Above: View from the porch of the Flanders Callaway House, Warren County, Missouri, 1938, by Charles or Alexander Piaget, working with Charles van Ravenswaay (later incorporated into a 1985 HABS).*
All photos here via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Above: “View from White House porch [looking north to Lafayette Park],” Washington, D.C., 1920, from National Photo Company Collection. President and Mrs. Wilson introduced sheep to the White House lawn. The wool went to the Red Cross.
Above: View from porch at Shady Rest Sanatorium, White Heath, Illinois, ca. 1920 – 1950, by Theodor Horydczak.
Above: Looking north from the porch of the Kolb-Pou-Newton House [or Boxwood], Madison, Georgia, June 1936, by L. D. Andrew for HABS.
Above: View of garden from the porch – Oakland Plantation, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, ca. 1988, by HABS.
Above: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dickbrader and Mr. Arcularius on the porch of the Dickbrader House, Franklin County, Missouri, by HABS.
Above: John Calvin Owings House, Laurens, South Carolina, by HABS.
Above: View from the veranda of the Billings Farm and Museum to Blake Hill, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, Vermont, 2001, by David W. Haas for HABS.
Above: Porch of Smithcliffs House, North Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, California, by HABS.
Above: “View from north porch, looking northeast toward Fort George River – Kingsley Plantation House,” Jacksonville, Florida, 1005, by Jack Boucher for HABS.
Above: “View from north porch looking south into Back Hall, with Reception Hall south door open [and closed] – Homewood (cropped slightly by me),” Baltimore, Maryland, 2005, by James W. Rosenthal for HABS.
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These are marvelous to see, especially like Kolb-Pou-Newton House and the Oakland Plantation garden.
Oakland looks very interesting. I had not heard of it before.
I’ve stood on the Rockefeller’s front porch (Billings Marsh) and looked at that view. Did you know they bought the viewshed from the porch (in winter) to preserve it.
It’s beautiful.
great photos Cindy! We in Australia rarely had ”porches” …they tended to be small entrance area’s for suburban houses. Having said that our house (circa 1903) has a porch but also plenty of Verandah (Indian origin i think) and that space was and still is much used by all levels of society!
Thanks for stopping by! There’s a good book on the American porch by Michael Dolan. He has traced its roots to (principally) Africa, Italy, and India.
Last January, I found a number of wonderful old photos of Australian bush-houses or shade-houses (and porches with lath) via the State Library of Queensland. I posted them here: https://enclosuretakerefuge.com/2013/01/17/vintage-landscape-bush-houses-in-australia/
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