Mansion_rev8.qxd - National Park Service

LIST OF FIGURES
3.44 View of the rustic bridge on the Lily Pond looking south from the stone bridge
with the hillside Norway spruce plantation in the background, c.1890. Billings
Family Archives.
3.45 Period Plan 2: Frederick Billings Era, 1869-1890.
3.46 Detail of Period Plan 2: Mansion Lawn.
4.1 The Billings women, c.1896. Billings Family Archives.
4.2 Court of Honor at the World’s Columbian Exposition. C. D. Arnold and H.
D. Higginbotham, Official Views of the World’s Columbian Exposition
(Chicago, 1893).
4.3 Hedge Walk, Quirinal Gardens, by Charles A. Platt. Charles A. Platt, Italian
Gardens (New York: Harper and Bros., 1894), frontispiece.
4.4 Arts and Crafts garden design. Gertrude Jekyll, Colour Schemes for the
Flower Garden (London, 1914).
4.5 "Trillium in the Wild Garden." Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden (London,
1899).
4.6 The Woodstock Inn, view from the Green, c.1894. Woodstock Historical
Society.
4.7 The Cornish garden of Herbert Croly. Frances Duncan, "The Gardens of
Cornish," Century Magazine (May 1906), 16.
4.8 Map of the Billings Estate, c.1906, showing additional lands acquired to date.
SUNY ESF.
4.9 Haying on the Billings farm, view west toward Elm Street and the Mansion
grounds, c.1913. Billings Family Archives.
4.10 The Mansion grounds and surrounding landscape, detail of Cairns survey of
1901. Billings Family Archives, annotated by SUNY ESF.
4.11 View of the Mansion and entrance drive with addition of old-fashioned
plantings, c.1895. Billings Family Archives.
4.12 Mary Montagu Billings training vines on the southeast corner of the Mansion
piazza, and Elizabeth Billings tending to an old-fashioned bed, c.1895. Billings
Family Archives.
4.13 Charles A. Platt’s design for High Court, Cornish, New Hampshire, 1890.
House & Garden (August 1902).
4.14 Diagram plan of the Terrace Gardens, c.1894. SUNY ESF.
4.15 The new Flower Garden during its first season, 1895. Billings Family Archives.
4.16 Mary Montagu with her dogs at temporary sundial in the center, installed for
the Flower Garden’s second season, c.1896. Billings Family Archives.
4.17 View west down the Long Terrace with Platt-designed benches at middle and
terminus of main path, c.1898. Billings Family Archives.
4.18 Receipt from Charles A. Platt for work on the Long Terrace benches and
Flower Garden fountain, December 6, 1898. Billings Farm & Museum.
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