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
“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
Mr Budd's summerhouse roof had been blown four houses down the street and landed in Trev Harris's garden after striking his conservatory and roof.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2015
Her summerhouse catches fire, but the fire is static and unsmoking.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
He had spent the night at his posh summerhouse at Schwanen- werder, sitting with Magda and Schmeling’s wife, Anny, listening to the fight on the radio into the wee hours.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
In every town there stood "scaffolding" or raised platforms, where the inhabitants frequently sat and conversed, and which served somewhat the same purpose as our own outdoor summerhouses of olden times.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
For the gardens, sometimes called "hortyards," there were summerhouses, greenhouses, and arbors.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
Nothing but summerhouses on a large scale are the South California barns.
From Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
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
