Sentence:  So this was my future <WSD>home</WSD>, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,...a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.