Ringwood Manor 
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THE PORTICO RINGWOOD MANOR 
Showing Wrought-iron Gates in the Style of Robert and James Adam , preserved from Old Houses in Bowling Green , New York 
A small cannon, one of two still remaining 
of the guns of the Constitution with which 
she captured the Guerriere in the War of 
1812, completes the group. This avenue 
is shut off from the front drive by light 
iron gates and piers taken from the old 
houses in the Bowling Green, New York. 
They are English ironwork of the eighteenth 
century, in the style of Robert and James 
Adam. The eastern end of the house is 
taken up with kitchens and offices, and the 
grounds consist of lawns and plantations of 
trees. At the western end is a covered piazza 
used as a living-room and overlooking, in 
the distance, the lake we have spoken of, 
with glimpses of pasture land in the home- 
farm and groups of fine old trees, and in the 
immediate foreground an exquisite little 
fountain set in a grove of locust-trees. The 
figure in the fountain is a youthful Triton 
blowing a conch-shell. He is made of lead, 
of seventeenth century workmanship and 
exactly similar in style to those of Versailles. 
Just back of this piazza is the well, sur¬ 
mounted by a red marble fifteenth century 
well-curb. This ornament is Italian, and is 
in excellent preservation. 
On the north, the hills approach the house 
so nearly as to leave room only for a sun- 
flooded space of green, which is laid out 
with the formality of Italian gardening. The 
center of the court back of the house is 
taken up by a sunk garden, with a large 
oval fountain, reached at four points by 
short flights of stone steps guarded by 
sphinxes. These sculptures are reproduc¬ 
tions of the originals in the Louvre, and are 
supposed to be likenesses of Mme. de Pom¬ 
padour and Mme. Du Barry. The majolica 
seats set along the edge of the fountain are 
modern Neapolitan copies of the old Pom¬ 
peian. The low stone benches, placed 
picturesquely through this court, are Italian; 
they are of red marble, with carved floral 
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