“Memie” (Mary Elizabeth Edwards) and her first post office in Lloyd, Florida, ca. 1910, via State Library and Archives of Florida (Florida Memory) Commons on flickr.
Shades of Eudora Welty. . . here’s her famous story.
Category: design
Vintage landscape: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Mary Ball Washington house, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1927, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The house was the last home of George Washington’s mother. It still exists and is open to the public. The garden was restored in 1968 to reflect how it might have looked between 1772 and 1789.
Vintage landscape: balustrade
Pond at the house entrance of “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).
The house was built in 1849 and still exists.
Wordless Wednesday: jardin des sens
A small park for the blind, Besançon, France, June 2016.
Vintage landscape: Thornedale
Sugar maple allée at “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Stafford Thorne is credited with the garden’s design. The estate still exists under family ownership.
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