From this point on, it is very easy to follow the trail all the way up to Washingtonħ. After a few street crossing, the trail will cross to the other side of the railroad tracks. Right on Mount Vernon Trail: Immediately have turning onto Pendleton, make a right turn to rejoin the Mount Vernon Trail. Follow Union Street all the way to the end, at which point you will be forced to make a left onto Pendleton Street.Ħ. South Union Street: The trail empties onto South Union Street in Olde Town Alexandria, VA. Left along the river: Once reaching the river, bear left into the small parking area and rejoin the Mount Vernon Trail.ĥ. Right towards the river: Immediately after crossing under the Beltway, turn right and head straight toward the river, along side the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.Ĥ. Continue on the marked trail as it passes under the Capital Beltway (I-95)ģ. Right at Capital Beltway: At the second traffic light, make a right turn to follow the trail along the retaining wall. Head north, keeping the river on your right.Ģ. Follow Mount Vernon Trail: The trail is located between the parking lot and the river. Together the biographies weave a portrait of the Gilded Age and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the architecture, but touching on such events as the Civil War, the industrial boom, and the sinking of the Titanic.1. Some of these houses are sadly gone or unrecognizably changed-though preserved here in photographs-but many shine on as brightly as ever. Steel, formed Nabisco, ran Standard Oil's domestic business, and mined gold, silver, and iron ore to supply an exploding railroad industry.Victorian Summer features estate biographies - each telling the story of a house, an architect, and a predominant owner. The 45-year span began with Robert Law Olmsted's storied firm laying out Belle Haven's graceful, lamp-lit streets, and continued with the Gilded Age's most renowned architects designing masterpieces, in styles ranging from the whimsical Queen Anne to the ponderous Richardsonian Romanesque, for the illustrious movers and shakers of the day - men who raised up the Manhattan skyline, co-founded U.S. Successful American magazine described the Belle Haven of 1902 as "a nonpareil spot, surpassing in beauty, while equaling in elegance, the pet of the fashionable world, Newport, and outshining Tuxedo in brilliance and gaiety." The New York Times, meanwhile, called it "the flower garden of Greenwich, and, indeed, of the whole Connecticut shore."Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut focuses on that great flowering of Belle Haven, from 1884 to 1929. Its development occurred rapidly, and between 18 Belle Haven Park was transformed from scenic pastureland set above the glistening ribbon of Long Island Sound into a bastion of Victorian luxury. In these idyllic locales they built luxurious summer "cottages" away from the grit and grime of New York or Boston or Philadelphia.The Belle Haven peninsula, in Greenwich, Connecticut, is home to one of the first and most spectacular residence parks in the country. At the height of the Gilded Age, America's wealthiest families began to cluster in Newport, Southampton, Bar Harbor, and Tuxedo Park.
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