. The stone house of Gowanus, scene of the battle of Long Island. y well aboveground, but has a foundation ample in have made it necessary to jump downthrough door or windows in order to gain en-trance, the house must have been buried to apoint above the pictured or original doorsill,thus reducing the visible portion of thehouse to a story and a half; and that this wasthe case is practically assured from the factthat the slope shown in the painting at the backof the house had even then long since vanished—the undulating wooded hills of this slopehaving given place to the gradual, eve
. The stone house of Gowanus, scene of the battle of Long Island. y well aboveground, but has a foundation ample in have made it necessary to jump downthrough door or windows in order to gain en-trance, the house must have been buried to apoint above the pictured or original doorsill,thus reducing the visible portion of thehouse to a story and a half; and that this wasthe case is practically assured from the factthat the slope shown in the painting at the backof the house had even then long since vanished—the undulating wooded hills of this slopehaving given place to the gradual, evendescent from the park to-day. Mr. Litchfield, whose grandfather boughtthe property from the Cortelyous in 1846 andextended Third Street across the lowlands,states that the street was sixteen feet abovethe level of the meadows; so that the originalground level of the Stone House wouldthus have been sixteen feet below the presentsurface—confirming eye-witnesses that thehouse appeared as though in a hollow evenafter having been buried to its second story. 128. THE OLD WILLOW TRi:f;, WHICH STOOD Xi;ar thi; door of the stone HOUSE AS IT LOOKS TODAi. IT IS SHOWN AS A SAPLING, REACHINGABOUT THE EAVES, IX THE TWO IRINTS AND THE LITHOGRAPH ELSE-WHERE REPRODUCED. BENEATH THESE STREETS AND VACANT LOTS LIE THE REMAINDEROF TPIOSE BRA\-E SONS OF M,\R\LAND. FIELD.
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