["Drumthwacket," Moses Taylor Pyne house, 354 Stockton Road, Princeton, New Jersey. (LOC)

Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.

 

["Drumthwacket," Moses Taylor Pyne house, 354 Stockton Road, Princeton, New Jersey. Italian garden stairway]

 

[1911 ]

 

1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Additions to existing 1833 Greek Revival house by Raleigh Colston Gildersleeve in 1893 and 1900. Landscape: Daniel Webster Langton, from 1893, the year Moses Taylor Pyne purchased the house. Associated Name: Margaretta Stockton (Mrs. Moses Taylor) Pyne. Today: House and remaining garden comprise the offical home of the governor of New Jersey.

On slide (handwritten): "P" and "Pyne." Also, gold star sticker.

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 90.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16742

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X108- 15

 

 

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