Monday, homes and/or locations, Part 2

Swag

Dan Donaldson

#2 is New Yankee Workshop

I thought that might get identified,yep

Re: Monday, homes and/or locations, Part 2

Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla

The last one looks like the Japanese Imperial Palace---The Throne Room?

# 3

Larry Barrett

House of seven gables, Salem MA

Only partly correct

Correct

Box of Chocolates

Dale Lenz

#1 is near Greenbough, Alabama...!

5 and 6

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

#5 might be Mark Twain's place?

#6 The legendary Philip Johnson House.

T.

Very good and yes

Hummmm, maybe, but not in AL. Run, Forest, run

Re: Only partly correct

Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla

If you are looking for location how about Kyoto, Japan

Monday Part 2 answers

Gary Smyth

Star winners know of their success. Tom gets special credit for Mark Twains room, as it is less easily recognized than the others.

Monday answers are as follows

1. Oak Alley, 1837, Vacherie, LA. A former sugar plantation now a B&B. Originally named Bon Sejour, Oak Alley was built in 1837-39 by George Swainey for Jacques Telesphore Roman, brother of Andre Roman who was twice governor of Louisiana. Equally significant is the impressive double row of giant live oak trees which form the oak alley, about 800 feet long, from which the property derived its present name. Planted before the house was constructed in 1837, this formal planting is a historic landscape design long recognized for its beauty.

2. Norm�s workshop. On the property of former TOH and New Yankee Workshop producer Russ Morash. 1988, Russell Morash planned to launch a spinoff of This Old House called The New Yankee Workshop, and he needed a convenient place to videotape so they used the shop in the small barn that Abram built in 1979 in Morash's backyard. The shop's layout and equipment were mostly Abram's preferences. The New Yankee Workshop first aired in 1989 with Abram as the host.

3. House of Seven Gables, Salem, MA., 1668. The house is the oldest surviving mansion house in continental North America, with 17 rooms and over 8,000 square feet including its large cellars. It also has a secret staircase. Nathaniel Hawthorne played there and Longfellow wrote �Evangeline� about the house.

4. Carson Mansion (also identified in a source as McKendrie Carlson House), 1886, Eureka, CA. Reportedly the most photographed High Victorian house in America. Originally the home of one of Northern California's first major lumber barons who put out 15 million board feet of redwood each year for years. Also co inventor of the lumber steam donkey. With the house he wanted to show his product, it has housed an exclusive private club since 1950, and never open to the public.

5. Parlor of Samuel Clemens home in Hartford, CT., 1884. Example of a stick house. This is also the �home� of Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn.

6. Johnson House 1946, New Caanan, CT. Also called the glass house. Noted for the absence of detailing, and anything resembling wood. In case you�re wondering, the bathroom is in the low circular mass barely seen in the center of the house.

7. Jefferson Room, Department of State, reception area. Washington, DC. This is where ambassadors present their credentials to the Secretary in ceremony. It is also used for small lunches and meetings and features some of the U.S. governments finest government owned/donated furniture, artwork.

8. Vizcaya, Miami FL. Built by James Deering (Deering + McCormick = International Harvestor) of the agricultural machinery family. Most of the property is now filled in and the formerly unique part now contains a boxy utilitarian hospital. But the Vizcaya property used to have several acres of interconnected small coastal islands each containing buildings and gardens with a different international theme. Over time many were destroyed by hurricanes and storms and too expensive to repair. Beautiful as it is it is a shell of what it must have been.

9. Lucy the Elephant home/bar. Tin and wood. 1880�s, part of a land development scheme that featured marketing elephants from AC to Cape May. The other two disappeared years ago. I knew Lucy when her bones were exposed, surrounded by a chain link fence in the late 1960�s. Instead of tearing her down she was restored. Still in her original location near the ocean in Margate, formerly South Atlantic City.

10. I did not know this, but this is but one of five distinct throne rooms in the Forbidden City, China. This one I chose for the ceiling as the rest of the room was under construction. It is the throne room of �Supreme Harmony�. The other throne rooms in the complex, just as ornate and with similar coloring are: �Union and Peace�, �Heavenly Purity�, �Central Harmony�, and �Preserving Harmony�.

Congrats to the participants.