{"id":4695,"date":"2011-09-30T12:54:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2011-09-30T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:09:28","slug":"english-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/english-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"English Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 2011<\/p>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<h3>This Tudor mansion is\u00a0a showcase for Anglo-American design.<\/h3>\n<p>The acid test for being an Anglophile is, \u201cCan you produce an unretouched photograph of Prince Philip and Prince Edward seated in either of your two Rolls Royces?\u201d Manhattan investment counselor Bruce D. Bent can do this, twice over.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, he and Van Stewart own Garrison Field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bought it from Colin Hampton [president of Union Mutual Life Insurance Co.],\u201d who owned it from 1974 until 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe house gets its name from the British, who kept a fort and supply dock here in pre-Revolutionary days,\u201d says listing agent William Davisson of LandVest, who is offering this Cotswold-style castle on 14 lush acres of bold Cape Elizabeth oceanfront for $6.25 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/October%202011%20Talking%20Walls.pdf\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/walls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4696\" title=\"walls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/walls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/walls.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/walls-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2011<br \/>\nThis Tudor \u2028mansion is \u2028a showcase \u2028for Anglo-\u2028American design. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}