English: Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Burrwood," Walter Jennings house, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Sunken garden and fountain]
[1916]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Carrère & Hastings, 1898-1900 with changes in 1915. Landscape: Frederick Law Olmsted and Olmsted Brothers, from 1895, worked from 1915-1916 at time of additions to house; Hicks Nurseries. Associated Name: Jean Brown (Mrs. Walter) Jennings. Other: House and garden on 110 acres. Today: Garden not extant except some walls and a gate, house razed.
Photographed when Frances Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwards Hewitt worked together.
On slide (handwritten): "J" and "Jennings, Mrs. Walter." Also, gold star sticker and red line stroke.
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 64.
Subjects:
Gardens--New York (State)--Cold Spring Harbor--1910-1920.
Fountains--New York (State)--Cold Spring Harbor--1910-1920.
Sculpture--New York (State)--Cold Spring Harbor--1910-1920.
Format: Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16212
Call Number: LC-J717-X100- 3