Mansion_rev8.qxd - National Park Service

LIST OF FIGURES
5.4 Map of the Billings Estate showing carriage roads and forest plantations,
c.1917. Billings Family Archives.
5.5 A mounted specimen from the Billings-Kittredge Herbarium, Rosa humillis,
var. villosa, collected by Elizabeth Billings and Elsie Kittredge on July 20, 1920.
Billings Family Archives.
5.6 The French family at the Mansion grounds, July 28, 1943. Billings Family
Archives.
5.7 Aerial view of Billings Farm and the Mansion grounds, November 1939.
Billings Family Archives, annotated by SUNY ESF.
5.8 The Long Terrace with its clipped shrubs, view east from lower walk toward
Flower Garden, c.1919. Billings Family Archives.
5.9 The Long Terrace, view east showing cross-axis walk and herbaceous border
along lower walk, c.1920. Billings Family Archives.
5.10 View from the main entrance drive toward the Mansion illustrating clipped
hedges, Norway spruce, and elms, c.1919. Billings Family Archives.
5.11 The front of the Laundry in its later years showing removal of peaked roofs
and other ornamental features, c.1945. Billings Family Archives.
5.12 View of the back and east side of the Bungalow within its wooded setting,
photographed about 25 years after it was built in 1917. Billings Family Archives.
5.13 The new swimming pool built in the foundations of the Hothouses, showing
the south wall of the Belvedere, formerly within the Tropical House, c.1937.
Billings Family Archives.
5.14 View from the upper walk on the Long Terrace east into the Flower Garden,
July 16, 1938. Billings Family Archives.
5.15 Plan of the Belvedere, Bowling Alley, and greenhouse following removal of
the Octagon, Rosary, and Tropical House in 1930, and the west end of the
Grapery in 1940. SUNY ESF.
5.16 Connie and Polly Hitchcock and Larry Rockefeller (son of Laurance and
Mary) playing on "Fairy Hill," c.1949. Courtesy Polly Hitchcock Bigham,
Evansville, Indiana.
5.17 The Stable and "Flicka’s fence," December 1967. Town of Woodstock assessment
records.
5.18 The big elm and profuse shrubbery at the rear and south sides of the
Mansion, 1947. Billings Family Archives.
5.19 Women of the extended Billings family posed in antique clothing on the front
steps of the Mansion, 1947. Courtesy of Jane McDill Smith, Woodstock,
Vermont.
5.20 The Gardener’s Cottage at 3 North Street, west side, c.1945. Billings Family
Archives.
5.21 View southwest across the Flower Garden illustrating condition in 1950, one
year after head gardener Carl Bergstrom was hired. Courtesy Polly
Hitchcock Bigham, Evansville, Indiana.
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