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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Hold Your Horses: Bartow-Pell’s Carriage House
Danger! Keep Out! These were the ominous signs on a dilapidated outbuilding at Bartow-Pell in the 1980s. More than a century earlier, however, the air would have resonated with the clip-clop of horse shoes, an occasional whinny, and the smell … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century carriage houses, 19th-century carriages, 19th-century horse stalls, Andrew Jackson Downing, Bank barns, Barn cupola, Bartow estate, Carriage house and stable, Cisterns in stables, Hay lofts, Hay platform, Hillside barns, James Goold, Side-hill barns, Urine gutters in stables
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