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“The Hedges’ 
AMERICAN’ & 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
1912 
at Rosemont 
A House whose Prototype was an Old Pennsylvania Barn with a Heavy-Pillared Overshoot 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
a) EIN called it a combination of old 
4g|| barn and pergola, which may have been right 
4|| enough as to its likeness to an old barn—its 
barn parentage 1s plainly traceable; the 
pergola idea is imagination pure and simple 
and without foundation. The subject of 
this description, a house at Rosemont, near Philadelphia, is 
a veritable cabinet of pleasant surprises from the millstone 
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The ground on which “The Hedges’”’ 
doorstep—rather let us be truthful and say from the first 
glimpse of its chimneys—to the unexpected, half-hidden 
vista between hedges into the lily garden at the rear, or 
what for convention’s sake is called the rear, though why a 
house should have any particular front or back it is hard 
to see unless it be, as one architectural wag suggested, that 
it is well to have a front so that you may know just where 
it is and then you can escape from it more easily. It is 
grew is a gentle declivity 
