["Tuckahoe," Nehemiah Addison Baker house, 12601 River Road, Richmond, Virginia. View from Thomas Jefferson's schoolhouse to boxwood maze]
[1936 April]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: H-plan, Georgian, white, wood framed house first built by Thomas Randolph, from circa 1720, with additions by William Randolph III, circa 1740. Other: House acquired by Nehemiah Addison and Isabelle Baker in 1935. Today: Preserved National Historic Landmark open to the public by appointment, boxwood maze no longer extant.
For b&w version, see LC-J717-X110- 13.
Same image is in the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, LC-J7-VA-1838.
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. Frontispiece to section "Gardens of the South."
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16341