. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. gave a splendid spaceon which to stroll of humid evenings, and summer-houses in the gardens were very common. A distinguishing feature of the builders of thecolonial mansions in both Maryland and Delawareseems to have been their love of gardens. After theplanter had built his house, he always chose a sunnyspot of ground to devote to flowers and box-bushes,these latter guarding the sides of formally plannedgravel walks. Just how long did it take our forefathers to buildone of these homes? Probably about four years on theaverage if there was no inter
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. gave a splendid spaceon which to stroll of humid evenings, and summer-houses in the gardens were very common. A distinguishing feature of the builders of thecolonial mansions in both Maryland and Delawareseems to have been their love of gardens. After theplanter had built his house, he always chose a sunnyspot of ground to devote to flowers and box-bushes,these latter guarding the sides of formally plannedgravel walks. Just how long did it take our forefathers to buildone of these homes? Probably about four years on theaverage if there was no interruption. We know that twoyears after the Chase House in Annapolis, Maryland,was started the outside of the house was labor was scarce and the builders of those daysdid their work with a care and a regard to permanencewhich does not mark all modern home erection. Thetimbers of Tulip Hill, West River, Maryland, are heavyenough for the keel of a large ship, and the thick wallsof the quaint Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware, would. ST. PAULS RECTORY, BALTIMORE1794 INTRODUCTION make a whole city block of two-story modern brickhouses. When our forefathers built a fine house how muchdid it cost them? The Chase House, Annapolis, whenalmost completed was sold by Samuel Chase for nearlyfive hundred pounds sterling, of Great Britain, andtwenty-four hundred pounds current, while the purchaseprice for the lot on which the house stood was onehundred pounds sterling. When Ninian Pinkney soldhis beautiful home opposite the Chase House to Jere-miah Townely Chase in 1811, the consideration wasthree thousand, five hundred dollars, of the UnitedStates mint, the purchasing power of a dollar beingmuch greater then than now. Whatever our fore-fathers homes may have cost them when new, it islamentably true that until very recent years many ofthem were sold for the proverbial song, and rag-timeat that. Of nearly every old house that one visits, it isproudly asserted that the bricks were
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