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153 3 // EXISTING CONDITIONS to in some contexts as the Carriage House), and the Gardener’s Cottage. A seventh building, the Greenhouse, no longer exists but fragments of its interior circulation system remain on site. The Martin House and pergola, Conservatory, and the Garage are connected by an interior circulation system, while the Barton House and the Gardener’s Cottage stand independent. The Barton House, however, does have a masonry wall that physically connects the house to the nearby Conservatory, but is otherwise sited as a standalone residence on the property. All buildings currently function as house- museums and are primarily used for interpretive purposes. However, each building does serve specific program purposes other than interpretive tours, including classes, group gatherings, receptions or other events. Structures on the property include a 16-inch high cast-in-place concrete planter wall located in the Jewett Frontage, which is largely tied-into the Martin House and visually appears as such along the front façade. The concrete appears to be lightly tinted (light buff). Another matching cast- in-place concrete wall, also 16-inches high and intended to retain soil, extends north-south along the Summit Terrace. The terrace wall is directly tied into a secondary planter wall at the south end. All wall structures are physically connected and appear more or less integral to the house foundation. The terrace wall also features large masonry piers at both the north and south terminus. The piers have an approximate dimension of 10x3-feet at the base and project to a height of +/- 6-feet above lowest finished grade. The piers, similar to the house, include cast-in-place foundations, a brick vertical pier, and a cast-in-place cap, which is slightly smaller in dimension than the base. Accessible from the Barton House rear yard, and structurally integral to the Conservatory and Garage, is a roughly 6-foot high masonry wall surrounding the Paddock area. The wall is thinner than other walls on the property but matches, in form, material, and size, the nearby wall connecting the Barton House to the Conservatory. The most substantial free-standing structure is the fountain wall at the north end of the Courtyard unit. Including the integral water basin, the fountain wall totals a bounding-box dimension of approximately 34x16-feet and reaches to a height of 6-feet above finished grade. The fountain wall is highly symmetrical, mirrored on each side of the fountain’s center, and features the diamond- fountain and half-diamond wall above, with two projecting wings to either side, both ending in piers of substantial mass. An adjacent wall directly across the garden path to the east is reciprocal in height and style, and is integrally tied into the western Conservatory façade. On the west side of the fountain wall is a stand-alone pier, matching in scale to the piers of the fountain wall. The materials and form are consistent with that of other structures and buildings on the property, and include cast-in-place foundations, roman brick facades and cast-in-place caps. The Courtyard unit is also bounded on the west by a low stone retaining wall, although only Fig. 156, bottom Masonry piers and steps, with Barton wall (right), located at north end of Summit terrace. Fig. 155, top Summit terrace wall, as seen from the second floor of main house, looking north. Bock sculpture, lower right.