summerhouse
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She wore Poiret gowns, opened galleries, lent Djuna Barnes the summerhouse where she wrote “Nightwood.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2019
Famously, Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning German author of The Magic Mountain, had a summerhouse here where he’d holiday with his family in the early 1930s.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018
“When I first got married, my wife wanted a summerhouse and I wanted a Swan—I bought the Swan first,” says Ferragamo, who visits the yard every two or three months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2015
Its trail takes in the poet's favourite drinking establishments, the summerhouse, and the village that became his home.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
I was making my way up to the summerhouse for the purpose of clearing away the remains of his lordship's taking tea there with some guests a little while earlier.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
In 1621, and in 1624, he repeated his visit, when he built many summerhouses and palaces at Atchabull, Shalimar, &c., and in A.D.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by William Henry Knight
His fancy peopled the shaded walks and summerhouses, which were scattered about it, with the joyous throng of gallant knights and stately ladies, enjoying themselves with mirth and song.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
The grottoes of the superior garden are here replaced by light ranges of arched summerhouses, designed in stucco, and occasionally adorned in their interior with fresco paintings of considerable brightness and beauty.
From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by John Ruskin
I drew near to the village: all the well-known old summerhouses and gardens were recognised again; I disliked the new ones, and all other alterations which had taken place.
From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan
For the gardens, sometimes called "hortyards," there were summerhouses, greenhouses, and arbors.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
