Steepletop, Home and Gardens of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New York

 http://www.millay.org/

Millay created several garden rooms, all made private with rock walls or tall hedges.
Most had a wooden doorway, which are still standing
Each room is being restored, and in time will be as they were during Edith's years at Steepletop

The "poles" behind the pool are the trunks of arborvitae, which after

Edith's death was never pruned for the 36 years her sister lived here. 

The ESVM Society is planning to take out the stumps and once again plant the arborvitae

to create the walls for the garden rooms.

 Edna's (or Vincent, as she preferred to be called)

writing cabin

 Originally an ice house, but later on...as guest cottage

GROWN-UP

WAS it for this I uttered prayers
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight? 

  ESVM