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[[underlined]]John Brown House, Providence, R.I.[[/underlined]] (1786)

In 1680 Peleg Sanford, governor of Rhode Island, wrote to England that the great lack in America was the merchant class. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century the merchants were thriving and all men shared the more comfortable life. John Brown was the greatest of these merchants and in 1786 he built a large house, which is today, as it was in the year of its building, the finest house in Rhode Island.

[[underlined]]21[[/underlined]]. The garden proper was on the east side of the house and on the west side was the green garden. The site of the old garden has been obliterated, but old planting about the house shows the fine wall, brick walks and marble figures. 

The estate was purchased in 1901 by Marsden J. Perry and he has added greatly to the beauty and the dignity of the place by his careful planting of old box.

[[underlined]]Vaucluse[[/underlined]],[[underlined]]Newport[[/underlined]], [underline]R.I.[/underline] (1790)

This is the record of a dream of an eighteenth century gentleman, for in the eighteenth century there were men in America who sat in their libraries and read Petrarch's sonnets. The Honorable Mr. Elam was one of these, and in 1789 in emulation of Petrarch, he built himself a Vaucluse. He too, had lost a "Laura." He laid six miles of "winding walks", embowered in rare shrubs for which he ransacked France and England. He had a Trojan Maze and Roman temples set with marble goddesses, all white and new from Carrara.

[[underlined]]22[[/underlined]]. The place was afterwards owned by Charles De Wolf of Bristol, who