Tea at Trianon: Waterfront Estate on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Waterfront Estate on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

From Veranda:

After years of working for a global fashion company that brought Jess Weeth everywhere from Saint Tropez to South Korea, she settled down in her charming hometown of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where she shifted her creative gears to residential interiors. The designer opened her studio, Weeth Home, on the main street she grew up with less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean and was soon working with a couple on their primary residence in town when they came across a stunning waterfront property on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
The 18th-century estate was seated on 40 acres along a secluded tributary of Chesapeake Bay that still housed an original Georgian Colonial structure. And if those details weren’t enough to have Weeth jumping at the prospect of getting to redesign the 10,000-square-foot estate, the couple had hired renowned architect Charles Goebel to thoughtfully bring the property’s various buildings that had been built over a span of 250 years into the modern age while still paying homage to its deeply rooted history. (Read more.)