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Chi–Sandra Garden, also known as 10IH1779, is a garden located within Payette National Forest. The garden was established by the Chinese American community to feed migrant laborers who worked in the mines. There are three other Chinese-American gardens in the Warren Mining District. [1]
The Yin Yu Tang house, photographed from an upstairs window in the Peabody Essex Museum Intricately carved wooden panels on the first floor of the Yin Yu Tang House. Yin Yu Tang House (蔭餘堂) is a late 18th-century Chinese house from Anhui province that had been removed from its original village and re-erected in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: Tong4jan4gaai1) is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.It is the only surviving historic ethnic Chinese enclave in New England since the demise of the Chinatowns in Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Maine after the 1950s.
The formal garden à la française, exemplified by the Gardens of Versailles, became the dominant horticultural style in Europe until the middle of the 18th century, when the English landscape garden and the French landscape garden acceded to dominance. In the 19th century, a welter of historical revivals and Romantic cottage-inspired gardening ...
The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden 寄興園 in Staten Island, New York; Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon; Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; Seattle Chinese Garden in Seattle, Washington; The Astor Court in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...
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It contains the Choate family's furniture, Chinese porcelain, and artwork collected from America, Europe, and the Far East. The house sits within 8 acres (3.2 ha) of terraced gardens (including The Rose Garden, The Afternoon Garden, and The Chinese Garden) and landscaped grounds surrounded by 40 acres (16 ha) of woodland, meadow, and pasture.