Identifier: americanestatesg00ferr (find matches)
Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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d segments of the ceil-ing. Special mention should be made of the loggias and porches, which are treated as out-door rooms. Their ceilings are vaulted, either in whole or in part, and are quite splendid intheir decorative embellishments. Ochre Court, the House of Mrs. Ogden Goelet. Ochre Court, like The Breakers, was a late work of the same architect, the lateRichard M. Hunt. No two buildings could, however, be more different in style. The archi-tectural motifs of Ochre Court are derived from the simple models of the French chateauepoch, when the Gothic feeling had not wholly disappeared nor the later Renaissance taken onthe full splendor of its subsequent enrichment. It is three stor^es in height, the uppermoststory being formed by the sloping roof, whose dormer windows, partly plain and partly orna-mental, form a leading feature in the architectural enrichment of the exterior. A small stoneporch is prefixed to the main entrance, above which is a large muUioned window, and above (69)
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