A Residence of Joseph Bonaparte’s 
of the wall and con¬ 
cealed by the brick¬ 
work, but are flush 
with it—a trick com¬ 
mon in the buildings of 
the Colonial period, 
having for its object 
to push the frame out 
as far as possible in 
order to give room for 
a broad sill on the in¬ 
side. The cornice is 
very Colonial in spirit 
with a pattern executed 
on it by means of little 
auger holes bored into 
it. 
The lawn is covered 
with flowers and shrubs 
in the most attractive 
and luxurious profu¬ 
sion — some of them 
plants that are very 
rarely seen in modern 
gardens. The flowers 
and bushes are for the most part of a much more 
modern origin than the house (for some photographs 
taken of the house in somewhat recent times show 
the house quite bare as compared with the present 
profusion), except the daffodils, which are said to be 
descendants of the original daffodils planted by Miss 
Savage. The box hedge by the front path is very 
valuable and charming, and the weeping willow tree 
THE HALL 
THE ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE 
by the corner of the house is a treasure. Bow Hill 
itself (I am speaking now of the hill and not the 
house, which is also called Bow Hill) is very attrac¬ 
tive. About thirty or forty feet hack of the house 
(they used to call it front long ago, although that 
is a distinction rather than a difference, as the 
aspect of the house is practicallv the same from 
either side, having the same arrangement of win¬ 
dows, the same portico 
and the same front 
door) the land drops 
away at an angle of 
almost sixty degrees 
down to the meadows. 
The slope of the hill is 
covered with fine tall 
trees under which the 
grass is almost as 
smooth as a lawn. 
I'he house is planned 
after a very common 
Colonial scheme, which 
is simply that of run¬ 
ning awide hall through 
the house from front to 
hack, and putting two 
rooms on either side of 
it. The plan is simple 
and convenient and ad¬ 
mits of using the same 
scheme of decoration 
for the front as the rear 
—not altogether a bad 
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