Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1900 — Frank Stockton’s New Home. [ARTICLE]

Frank Stockton’s New Home.

“Claymont,” Frank Stockton’s now Jiome, is the fulfillment of his ideal; “a garden spot, shut in from the world amid the hills of the beautiful and historic valley of the Shenandoah, a few miles distant from quaint old Charlestown, in West Virginia,” writes Clifford Howard in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “A hundred and fifty acres of forest, fields and orchards; of widespreading lawns and terraced gardens, and in their midst a stately mansion of Colonial architecture. Standing on a _gentle_eniinence, the house overlooks the landscape, in which few other dwellings are visible, and no highway nor road passes within sight of it. It stands back more than three-quarters of a mile from the entrance to the grounds, and is reached by a winding driveway through a wood of oak and taugled vines, with here and there a mass of rock or some boulder, adding to the picture of romaptic wildness.”