["Quiet Corner," John Wesley Baxter house, Dublin and Hill Roads, Greenwich, Connecticut. Macaws on terrace in summer]
[1920]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Benjamin William Morris for William Clyde Fitch, completed circa December 1903, with later additions by John Wesley Baxter. Other: The house on seven acres was built for playwright William Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) and inherited by John Wesley Baxter from his father Abram Couch Baxter in 1915. Today: House and garden not extant.
On slide (handwritten): "J.W. Baxter, Greenwich." Also, blind embossed stamp: "Frances B. Johnston, New York."
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 175.
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.16343