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Jul. 31st, 2003 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscI'm currently reading Justin Kaplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, wherein I came across a description of this house, built by/for Mark Twain in 1874:
"Outside and inside it defied all categories. It presented to the dazzled eye three turrets, the tallest of which was octagonal and about fifty feet high, five balconies, innumerable embrasures, a huge shaded veranda that turned a corner, an elaborate porte-cochere, a forest of chimneys. Its dark brick walls were trimmed with brownstone and decorated with inlaid designs in scarlet-painted brick and black; the roof was patterned in colored tile. The house was permanent polychrome and gingerbread Gothic; it was part steamboat, part medieval stronghold and part cuckoo clock."
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"Outside and inside it defied all categories. It presented to the dazzled eye three turrets, the tallest of which was octagonal and about fifty feet high, five balconies, innumerable embrasures, a huge shaded veranda that turned a corner, an elaborate porte-cochere, a forest of chimneys. Its dark brick walls were trimmed with brownstone and decorated with inlaid designs in scarlet-painted brick and black; the roof was patterned in colored tile. The house was permanent polychrome and gingerbread Gothic; it was part steamboat, part medieval stronghold and part cuckoo clock."
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Date: 2003-07-31 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-31 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-01 01:05 am (UTC)As far as the outside is concerned, good thing you married a Cantabridgian powerbroker, or else you'd be in trouble with the zoning commission.