Only occasionally do we see residential structures from
the Colonial and early period of the republic dressed
in stone, thereby making this Fairfax and Sammons
masterwork a living homage to those engineers and
stonemasons who had the derring do to create them
in the wilderness where the log or clapboard wall was
readily available and easily implemented. This house
satisfies architectural aficionados who are as much driven
by the anticipation of a journey to an outstanding work
of architecture-and the moment when it first presents
itself upon arrival in the landscap-as they are by the full
visit itself.
Readers of Cooper will remember the author���s fictional
Lake Glimmerglass in The Pioneers (1823) and The
Deerslayer (1841). Farmlands is designed to encompass
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