item: #1 of 11
          id: 11731
      author: Hutchins, Cortelle
       title: Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time
        date: None
       words: 62278
      flesch: 75
     summary: Now, a glimpse could be had of a relic of old James Towne, the ruined church tower, deep-set among the trees. Almost with the solemn significance of a tomb above the ashes of the dead, stands the sacred pile over the buried remains of old James Towne.
    keywords: anchor; away; brandon; byrd; church; colonial; colonists; colony; commodore; country; creek; day; days; early; end; family; find; gadabout; garden; good; harrison; home; house; houseboat; illustration; island; james; james river; james towne; john; landing; left; life; man; manor; mrs; nautica; new; people; place; plantation; point; river; room; shirley; shore; story; stream; sun; things; tide; time; towne; trees; village; virginia; visit; water; way; westover; weyanoke; white; wind
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 12006
      author: Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield)
       title: A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood
        date: None
       words: 28643
      flesch: 67
     summary: OTHER BUILDINGS AND TOMBS AT OR NEAR AGRA Akbar--Akbar's Connection with Agra--IV.
    keywords: agra; akbar; art; babar; building; city; court; death; delhi; dîwan; emperor; fatehpur; father; fort; garden; gate; hindu; house; india; jahangir; khas; left; mahal; marble; mogul; mosque; palace; persian; shah; shah jahan; son; stone; style; taj; throne; time; tomb; work; years
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 14742
      author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
       title: Vanishing England
        date: None
       words: 107559
      flesch: 68
     summary: Many old houses have disappeared on account of the loyalty of their owners, who were unfortunate enough to reside within the regions harassed by the Civil War. Many old houses, happily, contain their stores of ancient furniture.
    keywords: abbey; almshouses; architecture; arms; art; beauty; beneath; bishop; bridge; building; burford; castle; cathedral; century; chapel; church; church house; churches; city; coast; cottages; country; court; cross; crosses; customs; date; days; destruction; door; earl; east; edward; end; england; english; fair; family; feet; fine; fire; gate; george; good; gothic; grand; half; hall; hands; head; henry; high; history; hospital; house; illustration; inn; inns; john; king; left; life; london; lord; lynn; man; manor; market; men; monuments; near; new; norfolk; norman; north; norwich; number; oak; old; order; original; parish; people; period; picturesque; place; queen; record; remains; restoration; road; roof; room; round; royal; saxon; sea; set; sir; stocks; stone; street; tell; timber; time; tower; town; town hall; treasures; vanishing; village; walls; water; way; west; william; windows; work; years
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 21645
      author: Crawford, Mary Caroline
       title: The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
        date: None
       words: 53930
      flesch: 66
     summary: Other houses in the village were likewise attacked, one of them being defended by seven men, for whom the women inside cast bullets while the fight was in progress. It was the same at other times with other women, most of whom were too much absorbed in their own duties to give more than a passing solicitude to this rather odd and sometimes inconvenient adorer.
    keywords: agnes; american; berkeley; boston; church; country; daughter; day; death; doctor; england; family; farm; father; frankland; friend; fuller; general; girl; good; governor; hawthorne; home; house; husband; hutchinson; illustration; john; lady; lee; left; letter; life; love; man; margaret; mass; massachusetts; men; miss; morse; mrs; new; people; place; present; room; royall; salem; sir; stark; story; street; swift; time; town; ward; way; whittier; wife; williams; woman; years; young
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 26486
      author: Gilchrist, Murray
       title: The Dukeries
        date: None
       words: 14029
      flesch: 66
     summary: Great men were buried there, notably several chiefs of the Furnival family, who had for town residence Furnival's Inn in Holborn. He is said to be in London at his house in Lincolns in field, at the corner of queene streete, called Carlisle house or Savill house.
    keywords: century; country; day; days; duke; earl; end; forest; hood; house; lady; left; little; mary; park; place; present; queen; robin; rufford; sir; thoresby; time; trees; worksop; years; | |
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 30747
      author: Moore, Gay Montague
       title: Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria
        date: None
       words: 83395
      flesch: 67
     summary: In Alexandria Washington took command of his first troops. The designs of Alexandria houses derived from the Old Country, and follow the type of eighteenth century architecture found in the British Isles, especially Scotland.
    keywords: adam; alexander; alexandria; april; benjamin; book; brick; brown; building; captain; carlyle; century; chapter; charles; church; city; colonel; company; county; court; court house; craik; daughter; day; death; deed; dick; dollars; estate; fairfax; fairfax house; family; father; feet; fine; fire; following; footnote; gadsby; general; general washington; george washington; george william; good; great; half; hall; harper; harrison; home; house; ibid; illustration; james; john; july; land; later; lawrason; lee; left; letter; library; life; little; long; lot; lots; man; married; mount; mrs; new; place; port; potomac; prince; property; public; ramsay; robert; room; set; son; south; story; street; tavern; thomas; time; tobacco; town; town house; trustees; vernon; virginia; war; washington; washington street; west; wife; william; william fairfax; william ramsay; years; young
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 34873
      author: Northend, Mary Harrod
       title: Historic Homes of New England
        date: None
       words: 58227
      flesch: 70
     summary: As in many old houses, large rooms open on either side. This is evidenced very plainly in many old houses of that period which are found to-day in a remarkable state of preservation.
    keywords: adams house; boston; building; captain; colonel; colonial; country; dalton house; day; days; dining; door; england; entrance; estate; family; father; fireplace; furniture; general; gilman house; governor; hall; hallway; hand; home; house; illustration; john; kittredge house; lee; left; life; little; living; longfellow house; mansion; mansion house; massachusetts; men; new; parlor; period; pickering; pieces; pierce house; plate; portrait; quincy; room; royall house; salem; showing; shows; son; stark; time; town; warner house; wentworth house; white; years
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 37910
      author: Various
       title: Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches
        date: None
       words: 124636
      flesch: 57
     summary: To see great men at home is often more pleasant to the visitor than advantageous to the hero. Mr. Clay had a natural repugnance to caucuses, conventions, and the kindred contrivances whereby great men are elaborated out of very small materials, and was uniformly a candidate for Congress on his own hook, with no fence between him and his constituents.
    keywords: adams; age; american; ames; body; boston; business; cause; character; chief; city; clay; common; congress; constitution; country; course; court; day; days; death; england; family; father; franklin; french; friends; general; good; government; governor; half; hamilton; hancock; head; heart; henry; high; history; home; house; illustration; jay; jefferson; john; judge; king; law; left; letters; life; love; man; manner; men; mind; minister; mother; mrs; nature; new; occasion; office; party; people; period; place; power; present; president; private; public; quincy; residence; room; seat; son; spirit; state; thing; thought; time; town; trees; united; virginia; war; washington; way; world; years; york; young
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 38130
      author: Williams, Harrison
       title: Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck
        date: None
       words: 93614
      flesch: 57
     summary: Francis Aubrey became a large purchaser of Loudoun land soon after the Iroquois evacuation, first obtaining a grant at the mouth of Broad Run about 1725. In contrast to present-day views, he was wholly opposed to growing rye on Loudoun lands, believing that it impoverished the soil and that wheat yielded more in bushels; that rye destroyed grass and clover and injured orchards.
    keywords: acres; act; american; army; ball; british; building; captain; carter; champe; chapter; charles; church; colonel; colony; command; company; county; court; creek; day; days; death; england; english; estate; fairfax; family; ferry; following; fort; francis; french; gap; general; george; goose; governor; great; harrison; henry; history; home; house; indian; james; john; king; land; leesburg; library; lieutenant; life; lord; loudoun; loudoun county; major; maryland; mason; men; miles; miss; mrs; new; noland; north; northern; number; parish; people; place; point; potomac; present; records; rev; ridge; river; road; run; samuel; second; settlement; sir; south; thomas; time; town; tribes; virginia; war; washington; way; west; white; william; years; york
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 39068
      author: Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
       title: Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable
        date: None
       words: 108249
      flesch: 70
     summary: She inquired as to his health, for she marked the lines which mighty cares and toils had made in his manly countenance, and she spoke much of old times and old friends, but of his glory not one word. On it is a genteel, well-furnished dwelling-house, containing six rooms, all wainscoted, chair-board high, with fine dry cellars the full length of the house, which is 56 feet; also every other building which a reasonable person could wish or desire, to wit: a handsome study, storehouse, kitchen, laundry, dairy, meat-house, spring-house, and an ice-house within the curtelage; a barn 40 by 34 feet, two granaries, two carriage houses, 20 stalls for horses, a quarter for house servants; a handsome pigeon-house, well stocked; and several other houses for slaves; a well of water (so excellent that I can drink with delight after returning from a mountain circuit), a large, fertile garden, abounding with a great variety of shrubs, herbs, and beautiful flowers, well enclosed.
    keywords: acres; adams; american; army; battle; boston; british; building; charles; children; church; city; college; colonel; company; congress; country; day; days; death; delaware; england; estate; family; father; feet; fire; fort; general; george; good; governor; hall; henry; hill; historic; home; house; illustration; independence; indians; james; jefferson; jersey; john; king; lee; left; life; little; long; mansion; mary; massachusetts; meeting; members; men; miles; months; mrs; near; new; new york; officers; page; parish; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; photo; place; present; president; property; public; read; revolution; richmond; room; second; service; son; south; state house; states; story; thomas; time; town; town house; united; virginia; walls; war; washington; way; white; white house; wife; william; work; years; york; young
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 39789
      author: Hemstreet, Charles
       title: Nooks & Corners of Old New York
        date: None
       words: 32921
      flesch: 73
     summary: [Sidenote: Columbia College] The two blocks included between Barclay and Murray Streets, West Broadway and Church Street, were occupied until 1857 by the buildings and grounds of Columbia College. In 1854, Park Place was opened through the grounds of the college from Church Street to West Broadway (then called College Place).
    keywords: avenue; block; bowery; broadway; building; church; city; corner; east; farm; garden; greenwich; ground; hall; house; island; john; john street; land; lane; new; park; place; present; river; road; second; sidenote; site; square; street; street church; theatre; time; village; wall street; washington; water; west; william; years; york
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