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Pool House

DESCRIPTION

BUILDING SURROUNDINGS

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Plum Orchard February 2007

Pool House Forward

Pool House Introduction

Pool House General Description

Pool House Hunting Lodge

Pool House Dressing Rooms

Pool House Pool Chamber

Pool House Squash Court

Pool House Game Rooms

Pool House Utilities

Pool House Surroundings

Pool House Drawings

Pool House Photographs

The lawn area southwest of the building complex contained two tennis courts, according to Mrs. Rockefeller. A concrete marker line was located which extends from near the hunting lodge southwest to the edge of the clearing. The area may have also been used for badminton and other games. Aerial photos indicate a different surface material in the games area from the surrounding lawn. The games area may be underlain by a packed clay surface, or perhaps the area was chemically treated to keep grass low.

Near the rear southwest wall of the pool chamber are a pair of heavy embossed, steel doors, 5' x 4' set in a conr.rcte frame flush with the ground.

These are for access to the pump and valves controlling the pool's water supply.

Between the northeast end of the hunting lodge and the road is a brick foundation approximately 20' by 40' and 8" high. Whether this is the remains of an actual building or merely of an arbor or other shade structure is not known.

Planting around the building complex consists of rows of magnolias at the northwest and southeast ends, a row of cedars at the game rooms porch and myrtles at the southwest and northeast sides of the dressing rooms and pool chamber. In addition, the ubiquitous saw palmetto have spring up at odd places. All vegetation is badly overgrown, particularly the shade cedars, and the magnolias fronting the entrance portico to the hunting lodge. The latter trees are actually pressing against the building.

[This information and accompanying photographs are from a National Parks Service Document. ]

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