After seeing this fantastic photograph of Hardy Amies on Little Augury ...
it got me thinking about summer houses, tea houses, and garden pavilions...
I'm in love with this photograph of an octagonal summer house...
The trellis-work on this example at Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana is fantastic...
Could it get any better than this chinoiserie Thomas Chippendale inspired summer house at the Ashhurst Estate in Mount Holly, Burlington, New Jersey?
Love the pretense of the Derby Summer House at Glen Magna Estate in Essex, Massachusetts...
This Roman Revival example stands on the grounds of Gaineswood
Another example of formal classicism at Kykuit, Westchester, New York...
A rustic, wisteria-clad example...
Locally in Charleston....
A heavily modified octagonal garden pavilion at the Charles Kerrison House at 138 Wentworth Street... the interior contains a domed plaster ceiling...
Formerly thought to have been cow houses, these Gothic follies built on the grounds of the Aiken-Rhett House at 48 Elizabeth Street in the 1840s were most likely originally garden pavilions...
At the end of this drive on Montagu Street sits a circa 1840s Gothic tea house... a popular form seen on the grounds of many early nineteenth century Charleston homes...
This new garden and pavilion is a theoretical recreation of what could have once been at the Francis Simmons House at 14 Legare Street...
A trellised temple at the back of the garden of the Harth-Middleton House on South Battery... coincidentally, the gates in the foreground were moved circa 1910 from a house I lived at on Rutledge Avenue.
AMAZING post! How can you not love a little Tea House? I especially love the specimen found in Essex, Mass...ready to move right in. And I found (after hours of searching through my computer) some of my pictures of the one from Aiken-Rhett...I'll send them yonder if you fancy!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yes I'd love to see them... I'm docenting at the Aiken-Rhett this month. It's so nice just to be in or around that amazing house. I'm not quite sure I could love another house more.
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ReplyDeleteThey are rather special are they not! I was also inspired by the photo over at Little Augrey as well.
ReplyDeleteSome great picks-the more rustic for me the better. Colette at Nicky Haslam Design confirmed this is at the Hunting Lodge-once John Fowler's country home and now NH. pgt
ReplyDeleteNice post. A slight correction: Glen Magna is located in my hometown, Danvers MA, not in nearby Essex.
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