Munsey's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5

This August 1907 issue of Munsey's Magazine features an illustrated feature article by Elizabeth Odgers Toombs on Newport's cottages and gardens. The article surveys the architectural and horticultural transformation of Newport from its colonial "court end" to the modern Ocean Drive estates. Toombs describes specific properties including Gray Crag (Mitchell Clark's castle with its music room where Paderewski was entertained), Hammersmith Farm (the Auchincloss estate carved from rocky terrain), Wyndham (Miss Rosa Grosvenor's hilltop home with water-garden), the classical marble mansion of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs with its Italian garden, and Vernon Place (Mrs. Richard Gambrill's French chateau exemplifying formal landscape art). The article emphasizes how wealth and taste combined architectural design with horticultural innovation, discussing specific plantings—copper beeches, hydrangeas, lilies, roses—and landscape features including pergolas, terraces, and water elements.