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3 unusual facts about Oakes Angier Ames


Oakes Angier Ames

Ames' legacy to North Easton can still be seen in Queset House, his home beside the Queset Brook.

Queset House

The house was built in 1854 from a design by noted architect Andrew Jackson Downing under commission from industrialist Oakes Angier Ames.

The Rockery

In April 1882 Olmsted wrote to Oakes Angier Ames that such cairns were of monuments "the oldest and most enduring in the world", and with "the beautiful plants that have become rooted in them and which spring out of their crannies or have grown over them. . . are far more interesting and pleasant to see than the greater number of those constructed of massive masonry and elaborate sculpture."



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