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infinity pool - the water spills into the catch basin, from where it is then pumped back into the pool.
Because I sometimes need a relief valve for information overload, . . . :D
Rippled photo of telephone wires in a downtown Seattle skyscraper's "D-mark" room (I've no idea why it's called that but that's what the technicians ask for when they visit the buildings for the first time).
Explored December 16, 2008
Mt. Romelo, Siniloan
Laguna, Philippines
Read travel stories in LANTAW
Replaced with watermarked image. Damn you thieves
or Palombaro lungo - a subterranean cistern carved from rock beneath a busy plaza in the 19th century.
That's water underneath the gangways! (and, unsurprisingly, many coins)
Jones Road Falls is located in Vinemount section of Hamilton on the Niagara Escarpment below railway tracks. The catchment area for the waterfall is on top of the Niagara Escarpment above the railway tracks and flows into this pipe and then into the concrete catch basin. The water from this catch basin flows under the railway tracks in a pipe and exits at the top of the waterfall.
Second of 4 visits to Jones Road Falls.
Taken on 35mm colour print film with Mamiya camera on April 24, 2005.
Engine: Detroit Diesel 6-71N six cylinder two stroke diesel
Transmission: 5 speed with 2 speed transfer case
Photo courtesy of Auctions International.
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Engine: Detroit Diesel 6-71N six cylinder two stroke diesel
Transmission: 5 speed with 2 speed transfer case
Photo courtesy of Auctions International.
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Engine: Detroit Diesel 6-71N six cylinder two stroke diesel
Transmission: 5 speed with 2 speed transfer case
Photo courtesy of Auctions International.
Looking north across the terraced garden at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Looking north across the lawn at the third floor of the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Standing on the landing and looking south across the terraced garden at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Standing on the upper terrace and looking south-southwest across the terraced garden at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Looking northwest at the second floor of the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Statue of child with flute in the terraced garden at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Looking south from the terraced garden down onto Decatur Place NW at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The disused mid-level terrace is visible just below.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Sundial in the northeast corner of the garden at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Looking southeast from the garage-top patio across the terraced garden at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
Looking northwest across the patio atop the garage at the Woodrow Wilson House -- 2340 S Street NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The Georgian Revival house was built in 1915 by Henry Parker Fairbanks, a Boston businessman and carpet industry lobbyist, and designed by celebrated architect Waddy Wood. It's not clear who chose the architectural details of the facade, but Wood appears to have designed them by trying to harmonize his design with the six or seven houses (several designed by legendary architect John Russell Pope) in the area. As Woodrow Wilson's second term as president came to an end, he and his wife (Edith Bolling Galt Wilson) decided to stay in Washington, D.C. They began looking for a property, and after looking at a number of properties as well as considering whether to build a house, they settled on the Fairbanks property. Mrs. Wilson's endless negotiations over price nearly lost them the house, but President Wilson intervened and personally brought the purchase to a close. Wilson's presidency ended on March 4, 1921, and he moved into this house with his wife and two servants. Crippled by the 1919 stroke that ended his presidency, Wilson died in the house on February 3, 1924. Edith Wilson continued to live in the house until her death on December 28, 1961.
After the Wilsons moved in, they had a garage built to the west of the house on half a lot. A rooftop patio existed on top of the brick garage, surrounded by a low brick wall. Most of the wall next to the house on the north side was not brick, however, but a concrete balustrade designed to look like turned granite.
The garden appears to be level with the second floor in the rear, and slightly sunken. This is incorrect. In fact, the garden is level with the first floor. Between the house and the garden is a four-foot-wide, uncovered servants' trench. Accessed from the kitchen, one goes to the right and may access the garage through a door. Accessed from what was the servants' hall, one goes to the left, and may access the garden via a narrow, steep set of steps with a return. The portico covers the area where the two trenches meet. This is half as wide as the main trenches, and accessible from the storeroom that connects the kitchen with the servants' hall.
An eight foot high retaining wall holds back the built-up garden, which is brought level with the second floor of the house. A semi-circular landing is half-covered by a columned, quarter-moon wood canopy shaped and painted to look like white marble. A low, turned-wood balustrade is pierced by an open exit to the garden. A green striped awning extends from the canopy over the rest of the landing. The top of the canopy serves as the floor of the third-floor balcony.
Three slight steps of concrete brings the visitor down to the upper terrace of the garden. This area is as wide as the house and aligned with it, and about 14 feet deep. Boxwood hedges hide the brick walls to the right and left. A crab apple tree helps provide shade to the right. To the far right and far left four somewhat steep and narrow flagstone steps lead down to the mid-level terrace. The south edge of the upper terrace is concealed by ground-hugging juniper and ivy although the slightly projecting central overlook is kept free of plantings to preserve the north-south view.
The mid-level terrace runs around all four edges of the central, lower terrace. The western part of the mid-level terrace is dominated by a white mulberry, bitternut hickory, and bushes. The north, east, and south edges are grass. Two steep flagstone steps provide access to the lower terrace. These steps are in the center of the north, east, and south, and a cruciform flagstone path (now largely overgrown by grass) exists in the center of the lower terrace to link these steps. A fountain formerly stood in the center of the lower terrace, but its catchbasin has been replaced by plantings and the fountain by a stone sculpture of a child with a flute.
The southwest corner of the mid-level terrace contains a quarter-turned set of flagstone and concrete steps that leads to a piercing in the retaining wall to a southern lower terrace. This area is now blocked off to visitors, and the terrace overgrown with weeds and vines. Yet another retainining wall access and more steps lead to a sub-terrace, from which a landing and two steps lead to Decatur Place NW. Access from Decatur Place is blocked off as well.
Waddy Wood designed the layout of the terraced garden, but it is not clear who designed the plantings. It is known that Mrs. Wilson planted a number of magnolia trees here after she moved in, but none of these have survived. The garden was restored in 1996 to its historic condition by landscape architect David Bennett of HOH Associates in Alexandria, Virginia. Most of the existing plantings are hollies and yews, with a maple, hickory, cypress, winterberry, cedar, apple oak, hemlock, and pagodatree scattered here and there.
On Feb. 5, 2018, crews adjust elevations of catch basins in the northbound I-405 widening area. This work is part of ongoing construction for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project in Renton.
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