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Article: Living with antiques: CANE GARDEN GREAT HOUSE ON SAINT CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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Writing about Saint Croix in his Leaflets from the Danish West Indies of 1888, Charles Taylor observed,
Almost every estate on the island had its "Great House" where the owner and his family generally resided. Some of these dwellings were built in a most substantial manner, not a few laying claim to architectural beauty. [1]
Surely, the great house at the estate called Cane Garden on Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands falls into this aesthetic category.
Built on the island's south shore in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, Cane Garden's great house exemplifies the prevailing neoclassical style of the era. Its situation ...