The Stylish House: 1906 to 1931

Identifier3.34276

TypePhotographic image

DescriptionA version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the early 20th century.

Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:

• Theodore and Elizabeth / and / Kathryn Jane / John Edward / and / Scotty
• 1906 to / 1931 [sketch of a piano with a vase of flowers on top of a piano shawl]
• [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds, including the neighboring house and yard, with the following plants and trees labeled:]
  • Golden / Bantam corn
  • New Zealand / spinach
  • hen and chickens / yellow alyssum / phlox subulata 
  • pinks
  • Lombary / poplars
  • regal lilies / delphiniums / madonna lilies / rosy morn perunias
  • white birch
  • Spiraea / Van Houttei
  • mountain ash
• [sketches of a vase, a light fixture, and a plant stand to the right of the illustration]

Related EntitiesWatts, May Theilgaard (is related to)