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Landscape architect:

Wheeler, Perry H., 1914-1989  Search this

Photographer:

Stengle, James M., Dr.  Search this

Creator:

University of Georgia  Search this

Garden Club of America  Search this

Emory University  Search this

American Society of Landscape Architects  Search this

Names:

Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)  Search this

National Arboretum (U.S.)  Search this

Washington National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Bonnet, Henri, Ambassador  Search this

Bonnet, Henri, Madam  Search this

Estes, Billie Sol  Search this

Harriman, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, 1920-1997  Search this

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007  Search this

Mellon, Paul  Search this

Mellon, Rachel Lambert  Search this

Mesta, Perle, 1889-1975  Search this

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994  Search this

Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918  Search this

Truman, Margaret  Search this

Extent:

25.75 Cubic feet

3,958 Photographs

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Lists

Awards

Certificates

Invoices

Negatives

Correspondence

Clippings

Invitations

Slides (photographs)

Photographic prints

Plans (drawings)

Place:

Canada

White House (Washington, D.C.)

Africa

Europe

Caribbean

South America

West (U.S.)

Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)

Date:

1880-1984

bulk 1950-1965

Summary:

The Perry H. Wheeler Collection includes the design, client and business records of Perry H. Wheeler, a landscape architect best known for his work on numerous townhouse gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., during the 1960s as well as the redesign of the White House Rose Garden in collaboration with Rachel Lambert ('Bunny') Mellon during the Kennedy administration.

Scope and Contents note:

The Perry H. Wheeler Collection includes the design, client and business records of Perry H. Wheeler, a landscape architect best known for his work on numerous townhouse gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. during the 1960s as well as the redesign of the White House Rose Garen in collaboration with Rachel ('Bunny') Lambert Mellon during the Kennedy adminstration. The collection includes photographic images, plans, drawings, client correspondence, plant lists, invoices, newspaper and magazine clippings, certificates, awards, and invitations. The bulk of the collection and most of the professional papers date from about 1950 to 1965 and relate to various garden design projects by Wheeler, many of them located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Of particular note are documents for Wheeler's public design work including the White House grounds, Washington National Cathedral, U. S. National Arboretum, President John F. Kennedy's gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery, and the British and Cambodian Embassies in Washington, D.C. Noteworthy correspondents include President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Ladybird Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, and Margaret Truman.

There are also over 3,000 35mm slides dating from the 1950s and 1960s that document Wheeler's personal travels to Europe, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the American West.

Biographical/Historical note:

Perry Hunt Wheeler (1913-1989), a Georgia native, began his higher education at Emory University, going on to graduate from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1937. Immediately afterward Wheeler enrolled in Harvard University from which he earned a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture in 1938. After graduation, Wheeler collaborated on garden projects in Atlanta, Georgia with fellow landscape architect Helen Hawkins Clarke. During World War II, Wheeler moved to Washington, D.C. to serve under the Office of Civilian Defense and the Office of Strategic Services Camouflage Division. Following the war, Wheeler worked at Garden House a Georgetown shop where he advised homeowners on tasteful garden design, accessories, and furnishings. By 1948 Wheeler had established a landscape architecture practice in Washington, D.C. His practice grew via word of mouth through Washington's social circles and through a shared office with landscape architect Rose Ishbel Greely, and later with architect Gertrude Sawyer.

In 1947, he formed a 'bachelor household' in Georgetown with James Snitzler. Later, at the invitation of Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon, he and Snitzler created a second home outside of Washington called "Spring Hill" on property owned by Mellon. Shortly after Snitzler's death in 1968, Wheeler moved permanently to Middleburg, Virginia and continued to travel, lecture, and consult with clients. Wheeler semi-retired in 1981 to 'Budfield,' a property in Rectortown, Virginia where he passed away in 1989, leaving his estate to his partner, James M. Stengle.

Wheeler is best known for his work on private gardens in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood. He frequently employed the use of intricate brickwork, low-maintenance planting, and simple water features in creating his charming and functional designs. His most noteworthy commissions outside the private realm include collaboration with Bunny Mellon on the White House Rose Garden, designing a Garden Club of America-commissioned gazebo and its surroundings for the U.S. National Arboretum, and plantings for the National Cathedral and President John F. Kennedy's gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.

Provenance:

Gift from the estate of James M. Stengle, 1993.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Presidents -- United States  Search this

Landscape architects  Search this

Presidents' spouses -- United States  Search this

Gardens -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lists

Awards

Certificates

Invoices

Negatives

Correspondence

Clippings

Photographs

Invitations

Slides (photographs)

Photographic prints

Plans (drawings)

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Perry H. Wheeler collection.

Identifier:

AAG.WHE

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Perry H. Wheeler collection

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb62b29cd93-c01c-4a8c-ae82-fdd6e8499072

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-whe

Collection Landscape architect:

Wheeler, Perry H., 1914-1989  Search this

Collection Photographer:

Stengle, James M., Dr.  Search this

Collection Creator:

University of Georgia  Search this

Garden Club of America  Search this

Emory University  Search this

American Society of Landscape Architects  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Perry H. Wheeler collection.

Identifier:

AAG.WHE, File DC057

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Perry H. Wheeler collection

Perry H. Wheeler collection / Project Files / District of Columbia

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6dd144a6c-2636-431a-80be-7623de11cd7d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-whe-ref1280

Collection Landscape architect:

Wheeler, Perry H., 1914-1989  Search this

Collection Photographer:

Stengle, James M., Dr.  Search this

Collection Creator:

University of Georgia  Search this

Garden Club of America  Search this

Emory University  Search this

American Society of Landscape Architects  Search this

Extent:

1 Photographic print (Framed)

Container:

Box 5

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Date:

circa 1964-1966

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Perry H. Wheeler collection.

Identifier:

AAG.WHE, Item DC057_WHE001

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Perry H. Wheeler collection

Perry H. Wheeler collection / Project Files / District of Columbia / DC057: Washington -- The White House

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6cb26c044-bf8f-47cd-8313-d5afea1c330a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-whe-ref1288

Landscape architect:

Jungles, Raymond  Search this

Innocenti & Webel  Search this

Provenance:

Jupiter Island Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Gretchen W. and James L. Johnson Jupiter Island Estate (Hobe Sound, Florida)

United States of America -- Florida -- Martin -- Hobe Sound

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes worksheets, personal narratives, and photocopies of landscape architect's plans.

General:

The Jupiter Island Estate comprises 14.68 acres, incorporating four property lots and four houses integrated by a designed landscape made to look as though it occurred naturally. This property was put together in 2002 and the gardens have evolved, with trees sometimes brought down by storms and once by an explosion on the property. Although each building has distinct features such as trellised vines for shade on the studio building and a small vegetable and herb garden outside the guest cottage, the gardens are unified by fountains or other water features and the use of indigenous plants and coquina rockwork, with shades of red for most of the flowering plants. The predominate shape for planned garden areas suggests islands, with opened vistas the only obvious straight lines. The decomposing shapes of dead trees are prized and left in place to provide habitat for wildlife. Other casts off plant materials such as husks from palm trees are laid down on paths. The busy Intracoastal Waterway runs along one side of the property so a retaining wall was built for privacy and as protection against storms. Since the coastline of this property is rocky a private beach or sand pit was installed and there is an swimming pool with a modern beach house.

The plant selection for the tropical location includes bromeliads and bougainvillea in shades of red, blue agave, pink caladiums, jasmine, ficus and a stand of live oaks near the main residence. The plantings outside the yellow house include yellow roses, canna lilies and yellow orchids in a banyan tree with touches of periwinkle blue in the plantings and blue shutters on the building. Other plants that recur throughout the property include native cactus, wild coffee plant, peanut grass, sea grape and native berries, iron wood trees and stumps and many palm varieties. There are mature banyan trees, pigeon plum, ficus and a gnarly pigeon palm. Poinsettias that were holiday gifts are planted in the ground each year. There is a border of citrus trees for fruit, and dramatic large leaf philodendron, palms and stands of bamboo for privacy around another residence building. Confederate and night blooming jasmine, gardenia and ginger add fragrance outside windows and doors.

Persons associated with the garden include Raymond Jungles, FASLA (landscape architect, beginning in 2002); Innocenti & Webel (landscape architects).

Related Materials:

Gretchen W. and James L. Johnson Jupiter Island Estate related holdings consist of 2 folders (16 digital images; 3 photographic prints)

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Florida -- Hobe Sound  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File FL254

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Florida

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6da36de4e-31cb-4fbe-a163-c90e6aed5e96

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref11961

Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Names:

New York Flower Show  Search this

Extent:

37000 Slides (photographs) (35mm slides)

33 Linear feet ((garden files))

3,000 Lantern slides

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Lantern slides

Plans (drawings)

Brochures

Articles

Correspondence

Clippings

Date:

circa 1920-present

Summary:

This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland.

A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.

Biographical/Historical note:

The Garden Club of America was established in 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the Garden Club of Philadelphia and eleven other garden clubs met to create a national garden club. Its purpose is to foster the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and gardening and conservation efforts. The GCA was incorporated in Delaware in 1923, with its headquarters established in New York City. Today, local clubs are organized under twelve regional zones. The GCA continues its tradition of hosting flower shows and publishing material related to gardening in the United States.

The GCA's glass lantern slides were used by The GCA for presentations and lectures about notable gardens throughout the United States dating back to colonial times. An effort was made in the late 1980s, in preparation of the 75th anniversary of the Garden Club of America's founding, to collect the disbursed slides. These slides were to eventually form the Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens. The informational value of this collection is extensive since a number of images of the more than 4,500 gardens represented show garden designs that have changed over time or no longer exist. While the majority of images document a range of designed upper and upper-middle class gardens throughout the U.S., the scope of the collection is expanding as volunteers photograph and document contemporary gardens including community and vernacular gardens.

The gardens illustrate the design work of dozens of landscape architects including Marian Coffin, Beatrix Farrand, Lawrence Halprin, Hare & Hare, Umberto Innocenti, Gertrude Jekyll, Jens Jensen, Warren Manning, the Olmsted Brothers, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele. Because of their proximity to the gardens, works of notable architects and sculptors may also be featured in the images.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- France  Search this

Gardens -- Italy  Search this

Gardens -- Japan  Search this

Gardens -- Mexico  Search this

Flower shows  Search this

Gardening -- United States -- societies, etc  Search this

Gardens -- England  Search this

Landscape architecture  Search this

Gardens -- United States  Search this

Gardens -- Spain  Search this

Gardens -- Scotland  Search this

Genre/Form:

Plans (drawings)

Brochures

Articles

Correspondence

Clippings

Lantern slides

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb617385372-1028-4cb7-b07d-04fea2e51c47

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-gca

Lantern slide maker:

Van Altena, Edward  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Lantern slide (col., 3.25 x 4 in.)

Type:

Archival materials

Lantern slides

Place:

Packwood House (Lapworth, Warwickshire, England)

United Kingdom -- England -- Warwickshire -- Lapworth

Date:

[between 1925 and 1930]

General:

Packwood House was visited during the Garden Club of America's June 1929 tour to England. A complete copy of the GCA tour itinerary was printed in the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (Fourth Series, No. 5), September 1929, pp. 6-25.

Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."

Historic plate number: "97."

Historic plate caption: "English."

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Summer  Search this

Garden structures  Search this

Walkways, gravel  Search this

Garden borders  Search this

Gazebos  Search this

Gardens -- England -- Warwickshire -- Lapworth  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item ENG032006

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / United Kingdom -- England / ENG032: Lapworth -- Packwood House

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb618fac87f-95b6-4d47-817a-587edea46ebb

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref4580

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Lantern slides

Place:

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Melun, France)

France -- Ile-de-France -- Seine-et-Marne Department -- Melun

Date:

1936 Jun.

General:

Historic plate number: "24."

Historic plate caption: "French Gardens."

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Sculpture  Search this

Gardens -- France -- Melun  Search this

Hedges  Search this

Walkways  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item FR012018

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / France / FR012: Maincy (near Melun) -- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6b9cc78cf-921f-4add-9fbd-09ddb60b55f6

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref4846

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Lantern slides

Place:

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Melun, France)

France -- Ile-de-France -- Seine-et-Marne Department -- Melun

Date:

1936 Jun.

General:

Historic plate number: "25."

Historic plate caption: "French Gardens."

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Canals  Search this

Stairs  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Topiary work  Search this

Urns  Search this

Boats  Search this

People  Search this

Gardens -- France -- Melun  Search this

Terraces  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item FR012019

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / France / FR012: Maincy (near Melun) -- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6223ca2b7-5d01-44e9-96bc-09d577f74b58

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref4847

Lantern slide maker:

Van Altena, Edward  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Lantern slide (col., 3.25 x 4 in.)

Type:

Archival materials

Lantern slides

Place:

Seagry House (Chippenham, Wiltshire, England)

United Kingdom -- England -- Wiltshire -- Chippenham

Date:

[between 1925 and 1935]

General:

Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."

Historic plate number: "104."

Historic plate caption: "English."

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Summer  Search this

Ponds  Search this

Columns  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Hedges  Search this

Gardens -- England -- Wiltshire -- Chippenham  Search this

Mansions  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item ENG013004

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / United Kingdom -- England / ENG013: Chippenham -- Seagry House

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6b6c23089-b8f7-41f7-8def-f3ce14a5dcef

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref4532

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Lantern slides

Place:

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Melun, France)

France -- Ile-de-France -- Seine-et-Marne Department -- Melun

Date:

1936 Jun.

General:

Historic plate number: "23."

Historic plate caption: "French Gardens."

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Sculpture  Search this

Parterres  Search this

Fountains  Search this

Walkways  Search this

Ponds  Search this

Urns  Search this

Gardens -- France -- Melun  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item FR012017

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / France / FR012: Maincy (near Melun) -- Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6ce773237-6c9b-41b2-949b-17ba08187a8d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref4845

Former owner:

Brenton, William  Search this

Auchincloss, John Winthrop  Search this

Auchincloss, Emma Brewster (Mrs. Hugh D., Sr.), 1861-1942  Search this

Auchincloss, Hugh D.  Search this

Auchincloss, Janet  Search this

Landscape architect:

Olmsted Brothers  Search this

Landscape designer:

Kellaway, Herbert J.  Search this

Barrett, Nathan Franklin  Search this

Timchenko, Boris V., 1898-1975  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Hammersmith Farm (Newport, Rhode Island)

United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport County -- Newport

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes worksheets, a brochure, and photocopies of photographs of and articles about the garden.

General:

Lying at the meeting of Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic, Hammersmith Farm was originally settled in the 17th century by surveyor William Brenton and named for his English residence. Eventually passing into the Auchincloss family, the property was landscaped by the Olmsted Brothers firm (records show that the firm was involved with the site from 1909 to 1946). Other designs for the property were developed by Nathan Franklin Barrett, Herbert Kellaway, and Boris V. Timchenko. An elaborate Italianate sunken garden was centered on a pool flanked by low mounds of flowers. Geometrically shaped flowers beds lay to either side, while the space was decorated by urns and columns. A pergola enclosed three sides. The property was the site of the wedding reception of Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr.'s daughter, Jacqueline Bouvier, and John F. Kennedy.

Persons and firms associated with the garden include: William Brenton (former owner, after 1638); John W. Auchincloss (former owner, c. 1887); Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss (former owners, early 20th century); Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss (former owners, mid-20th century); Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects (landscape architects, 1909-1946); Nathan Franklin Barrett (landscape designer, 1912); Herbert J. Kellaway (landscape designer); and Boris V. Timchenko (landscape designer, 1959).

Related Materials:

Hammersmith Farm related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 glass lantern slides; 9 35 mm. slides)

Records related to this site can be found at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Olmsted Job Number 03794, H. D. Auchincloss.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Rhode Island -- Newport  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File RI025

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb69cf023d3-f1be-41a9-9a2e-70113cf774df

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref10559

Creator:

Branam, Alfred S., Jr.  Search this

Carhart, Amory Sibley  Search this

Tuxedo Park Public Library  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Slides (photographs) (col.)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Carhart Garden (Tuxedo Park, New York)

United States of America -- New York -- Orange County -- Tuxedo Park

Date:

07/01/1908

General:

Many of the remaining great "cottages" are in deteriorating condition.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Summer  Search this

Columns  Search this

Balustrades  Search this

Fountains  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item NY478007

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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / New York / NY478: Tuxedo Park -- Carhart Garden

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb607644d36-1f31-4c76-a9d2-47e9c6a28d49

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref29718

Compiler:

Weller, Eleanor  Search this

Names:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

36 Cubic feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Publications

Notes

Clippings

Correspondence

Date:

circa 1978-2006

bulk 1981-1991

Summary:

The Eleanor Weller Collection dates from circa 1978-2006 and consists of photographic images and research files relating to The Garden Club of America's Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens (later donated to the Smithsonian Institution as The Garden Club of America Collection) and the book, The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940, co-written by Weller and Mac Griswold, as well as thousands of photographic images of historic and contemporary gardens compiled or taken by Weller. Materials include correspondence, research notes, clippings, brochures, lecture scripts, photocopied images from archival repositories, and original and duplicate 35mm slides.

Scope and Contents note:

The core of the collection consists of thousands of 35mm slide images photographed or amassed by Eleanor Weller. The latter come from numerous sources including books, magazines and archival repositories. The images document thousands of private gardens and public spaces (including parks, historic sites, and sculpture gardens) throughout the United States. Duplicates of a significant number of images from the Eleanor Weller Collection can be found in The Garden Club of America Collection at the Archives of American Gardens. There is also a smaller grouping of photographs of gardens taken by Weller. Complementing this collection of images are numerous vertical files with magazine and newspaper clippings and brochures, etc. relating to hundreds of public and private gardens in America. A significant number of the files relate to gardens profiled in the book co-authored by Weller, The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940. The collection also includes correspondence regarding the recompilation of The Garden Club of America's collection of historic glass lantern slides as well as correspondence and research materials relating to the compilation of 35mm slides for the GCA's Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens from both public and private sources.

Another portion of the collection documents the research and image compilation for The Golden Age of American Gardens manuscript. While similar in nature to the research materials relating to the GCA Slide Library, the portion of the collection encompassing the book's preparation represents a change in focus from collecting a representative sampling of 35mm slides for gardens throughout the U.S. to gathering specific high quality images intended for The Golden Age of American Gardens. This portion of the collection also contains a nearly complete draft of the manuscript as well as drafts of the footnotes and appendix. Because of the similar nature of the GCA Slide Library and The Golden Age of American Gardens book projects and the fact that they overlapped for a time, the files frequently intertwine closely. Some files identified with one project may include documents for the other project and visa versa. An example of this is seen in The Golden Age of American Gardens' Image Reference Files arranged according to Archival Repository. The files include packets from archival repositories throughout the U.S. with photocopies of select images in their collections. These images were used to facilitate both the selection of images for The Golden Age of American Gardens book project and the GCA Slide Library, and are occasionally annotated. In some cases, a review of both series may be necessary to ensure that relevant files are not overlooked.

Other noteworthy aspects of this collection are materials that deal with the origins and operations of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Gardens, including correspondence regarding one of its future collections, The Chimneys Collection. Also present are several slide scripts corresponding with the GCA's historic glass lantern slide collection, as well as materials in the GCA Slide Library (now The Garden Club of America Collection).

It should be noted that while the creator of this collection is Eleanor Weller, significant portions of the files relating to the GCA Slide Library and The Golden Age of American Gardens were compiled by Helen Rollins in her position as research assistant for The Golden Age book project. It is possible that Rollins also helped compile the files in The Golden Age of American Gardens' Image Reference Files arranged by state.

Lastly, the collection includes contemporary color photographs of historic sites and gardens taken by Richard Marchand. Weller had previously worked with Marchand, the donor of the Richard Marchand Historical Postcard Collection at the Archives of American Gardens, to compile historic garden images for the GCA Slide Library.

Biographical/Historical note:

Eleanor Weller Reade is a horticulturist, garden lecturer, interior designer, and co-author of the book The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940. As a member of The Garden Club of America, she played a ciritical role in the compilation of the GCA's Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens which was subsequently donated to the Archives of American Gardens as The Garden Club of America Collection.

Provenance:

Donated by Eleanor Weller Reade to the Archives of American Gardens in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- History  Search this

Gardens -- United States  Search this

Parks -- United States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Publications

Notes

Clippings

Correspondence

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Eleanor Weller Reade collection.

Identifier:

AAG.ECW

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Eleanor Weller collection

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb625937a95-310e-4e98-8a04-45d544ecdd7b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aag-ecw

Provenance:

Wissahickon Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

United States of America -- Pennslyvania -- Philadelphia County -- Philadelphia

Stonehurst Revisited (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Scope and Contents:

5 35mm slides (reproductions from the Library of Congress), 1 file folder, 40 digital images and 1 digital file.

Varying Form:

Henry Garden, formerly known as.

General:

Naturalistic Wissahikcon Style woodland garden created on remnants of an Olmsted Brothers design, including pergolas, koi ponds, and schist rock walls.

Person associated with the garden's design include: Nina Schneider (Garden designer, mid 2005–2020) and Heidi Schusterman (Landscape Architect, 2018- 2020).

Related Materials:

See the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File PA378

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6d25bbf6b-7faf-4c91-b1c9-e85475d8fe2c

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33360

Photographer:

Whitney, Kate Lucey (Kathryn Lucey)  Search this

McBean, Edith  Search this

Garden designer:

Skelly, Devin  Search this

Sculptor:

Dongre, Anita  Search this

Provenance:

Newport Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Digital images

Place:

United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport County -- Newport

Salt Marsh House (Newport, Rhode Island)

Scope and Contents:

20 digital images (2020-2021).

General:

The house built in 1929 is sited on Goose Neck Cove 14 feet above sea level and surrounded on three sides by tidal marshland. There were no specific plans for gardens within the 4.13 acre property when a young gardener was hired in 1992 - just instructions to add a vegetable and cutting garden. What has been developed since are garden rooms, including a Japanese room, a certified arboretum with 85 different specimen and native trees including a grove of paperbark maples, distinctive hedgerows with openings to hidden garden rooms, and significant coastal restoration of the marshes. That work on this property began with hand removal of invasive phragmites (grasses) and purple loosestrife followed by the planting of native spartina grass, broadleaf cattail, milkweed, shadbush, and bayberry to create a rich coastal ecosystem. Now the natives bordering the salt marsh meld into the cultivated landscape.

The tree collection includes buckeye and horse chestnut, a pollarded catalpa, an espaliered Anjou pear, a big leaf magnolia at the front of the house that faces the street, and around the perimeter of the property there are willow, cedar, umbrella pine and crabapple. Hurricane Sandy felled a 55-foot giant sequoia but the gardeners have replanted two more on higher ground. The Japanese room, inspired by the owner's travel, is planted with azaleas and has a pond and a Thai wooden temple. Sculpture in the gardens include a Buddha head and a Dappu JuJu elephant sculpted by Anita Dongre. An art collection is housed in a barn built near the house.

Other garden rooms include two vegetable patches and a cutting bed, a meditation garden, an informal herb garden, and a sundial island garden planted with boxwood, santolina, sedums and astilbe. A cattail trail leads to a high viewing platform over the marsh. Through plant choice and design the collaboration of owner and manager have created an evolving landscape in this coastal location that will withstand both weather events and climate change.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Edith McBean (owner, gardener, art collector, 1992- ); Devin Skelly (estate gardener and designer, 1992- ).

Provenance:

The Newport Garden Club facilitated the 2021 submission.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Rhode Island -- Newport  Search this

Arboretums  Search this

Landscape gardening  Search this

Marshes  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File RI139

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6c21c9de3-7e7f-41e4-9775-953428bed903

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33272

Landscape architect:

Graves, Gary R.  Search this

Provenance:

The Garden Club of Jackson  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Swan Lake (Jackson, Mississippi)

United States of America -- Mississippi -- Hinds County -- Jackson

Scope and Contents:

This folder includes worksheets, site plans, photocopies of articles about the project, and other information.

General:

Located on two acres in Jackson, Mississippi, this home and garden was built in 1988. Less than a mile from the Pearl River, the land was part of the swampland and floodplain along the river. A developer formed the two acre home site creating a lake in the process.

Landscape architect, Gary Graves, hoped to create a pastoral approach from the street. The front lawn is surrounded by a Dwarf Burford Holly punctuated by Easter Red Cedar on the corners. The intent was to separate the residence from the street and to create the feeling of depth. Street access to the front door occurs through an alee of Natchez Crape Myrtle and pair of Drake Elm trees along a beautiful herringbone pattern brick walk. A parallel row of Japanese Boxwood on each side of the walk frames a changing set of annuals and perennials to attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Walking between two cedar trees, one enters a garden in which over a hundred different perennials, annuals, bulbs, roses, herbs spill over on the brick paths interspersed with moss. Vines of Evergreen wisteria, honeysuckle, and antique roses cover the white metal arch and picket fence. Three columnar junipers frame the view of the lake.

In 1990, English gardener Rita Hall helped the owner select plants grown in England that would thrive in her Mississippi garden inside the fence and trellis area designed by landscape architect Susan Case. Selecting the flowers is a continuous changing process that is evaluated every season. Iris, snapdragons, hydrangeas, feverfew, and roses frame the brick walkway and wall that lead from the English garden to the south side of the residence and terrace that runs the length of the back of the house.

The backyard's steep descent toward the lake was transformed using a tiered series of wooden stairs and decks which was added in 2003, designed by Gary Graves. This four level decking system allows level areas for plantings, entertaining and relaxing. Three parterres between the decks including a knot garden are planted with Japanese boxwood, antique roses, herbs, annuals, bulbs and bordered by with hundreds of Knockout roses and Shi Shi Camellias. Three water-jets splash in the lake creating the soothing sound of waterfalls.

Following the brick walkway from the perennial garden past the decking that runs the length of the back brick porch, past huge pots of rosemary outside the kitchen, one enters a courtyard through a white metal arch. Chinese Wisteria and antique roses cover the arch and frame an intimate space used for dining. Such details as a fountain, statue, benches, hydrangeas and huge white urns filled with impatiens or snapdragons and pansies await visitors. The brick path continues to a small herb and vegetable garden which leads to a white gate where wild grape vines and blueberry bushes grow.

Swan Lake continues to evolve, change and delight those who live and visit here. The owners continue to dream of other garden possibilities, a children's garden, fruit orchards, organic gardens and more.

Persons associated with the property include: Barry Fox (architect, 1986-1988), Garry R. Graves (landscape architect, 1992-present), Rita Hall (garden consultant, 1990-1994).

Related Materials:

Swan Lake related holdings consist of 1 folder (16 digital images)

Additonal documentation is located with landscape architect Gary Graves.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Mississippi -- Jackson  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File MS042

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6fd7ed815-2cfb-4701-8e8d-1527e785fb90

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref9153

Photographer:

Wieenmann, Charlotte C.  Search this

Landscape architect:

Shipman, Ellen Biddle, 1869-1950  Search this

Architect:

Peabody, Julian  Search this

Provenance:

The Garden Club of Aiken (Aiken, South Carolina )  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Gates

Digital images

Place:

United States of America -- South Carolina -- Aiken County -- Aiken

The Balcony (Aiken, South Carolina)

Scope and Contents:

17 digital images and 1 digital file which includes a planting list and copy of Shipman's planting plan.

General:

The original 1930's garden design by landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869-1950) still can be discerned in the mature trees and sculpted hedges of the 5.82-acre estate. The property was intended as a winter sporting retreat for the original owner so, given the economic uncertainty of the time, an ornate display of summer blooming plants was deemed unnecessary. The brick Georgian revival house built in 1930 and the landscaped grounds reflected the Country Place era – an emulation of an English country estate that would have existed for generations. The entire property is enclosed by a stucco high wall with an iron front gate and a wooden door inserted in wall in the 1950's for access to a private supper club on the adjacent property.

The level property has expansive lawns punctuated or bordered with camellias, hollies, tea olives, native magnolias and loblolly pine. Shipman defined and enclosed spaces but in a more naturalistic way on this property. Osmanthus fragrans x fortune (tea olive) border the lawn along the drive. A shaped boxwood hedge defines the walkway to the front door. Some of the varieties that were popular when the estate was planted are no longer available commercially, and a Carolina cherry laurel allée was replaced with azaleas as the original plant is invasive. Azalea drifts that flower in early spring replace the original design of viola, vinca, and spring bulbs. Crepe myrtles, nandina and magnolia grown at the entrance to the property. Behind the house there is a simple rectangular pool, a later addition but in Shipman's style. There are a dressage ring, stables, and grooms' cottages along with three paddocks on this polo player's property.

Persons associated with garden's design include: Julian Peabody (architect, 1929-1931) and Ellen Shipman (landscape architect (1930-1931).

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- South Carolina -- Aiken  Search this

Allées  Search this

Hedges  Search this

Lawns  Search this

Stables  Search this

Terraces  Search this

Swimming pools  Search this

Genre/Form:

Gates

Digital images

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File SC154

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6cd1cd33a-d89c-4e43-87b1-da2720a839be

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33359

Photographer:

Lazarus, Liz  Search this

Garden designer:

Hayward, Gordon  Search this

Owner:

Ryder, Beth  Search this

Michael, Tierney  Search this

Landscape architect:

Kendra, Masicioli  Search this

Architect:

Blake, Theodore E.  Search this

Provenance:

Hortulus Garden Club  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Digital images

Place:

United States of America -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County -- Greenwich

Jefferson-Ebert House and Garden (Greenwich, Connecticut)

Scope and Contents:

22 digital images (2019-2020) and 1 digital file folder.

General:

The original six-acre farm had a small 1843 or earlier house done in the Greek Revival style that was expanded and altered in 1905 in the Colonial Revival style by architect Theodore E. Blake, for artists Charles and Mary Roberts Ebert. The current owners acquired the house with 1.61 acres in 1993, then renovated the house and landscape from 2008 until 2010. Projects for the gardens, formal and secluded, included defining sight lines, renovating old stone walls and building new ones, creating paths, and mass plantings of deer resistant materials. They attached a greenhouse with radiant floor heating to the house for houseplants, tropicals and seedlings. When the greenhouse floor is dampened the humidity spreads into the house. Custom built, the greenhouse has details that repeat white-shingled Colonial Revival style.

Some mature trees and shrubs dot the property, including kousa dogwood near the front wall and gate, sugar maple, shagbark hickory, red oak and cryptomeria, stewartia, holly and viburnum. There was one remaining rose from the garden of former owner Jane Righter, honored posthumously with a medal by the Garden Club of America. A variety of hardy ferns were planted around the foundation of the house. The small fieldstone patio to one side is shaded by a beech with underplanting of ginger, trillium and hellebore. There is a small fountain on the patio and an herb garden nearby. In view are woodlands and a brook with a spillway that once fed a sawmill. A bluestone walkway in front of the house is bordered by boxwood and a spring display of bulbs including allium. Pea gravel paths lead to outbuildings, including an old stone spring house and a bright red barn/potting shed. A fenced potager produces seasonal vegetables, roses, bulbs and annual flowers. On a small slope there is a spring display of daffodils and hyacinths backed by forsythia. An old maple with a circular bench looks onto a shady garden of fern, hellebore, tiarella, ornamental grass, trillium, and Japanese woodland peonies

A circle within a square sundial garden behind the house has dwarf black mundo grass in the corners of the cobblestone and pea stone paving, with an old English sundial in the center. Another circular feature is the old fieldstone-lined well with a wrought iron wellhead. An allée of English oak has a lower layer of boxwood and ground level layer planted with epimedium, geranium and amsonia. At the end there is a semi-circular ring of trees overlooking a pergola draped in native trumpet vine. Containers on stone walls, steps and driveway pillars have seasonal plants for year-round appeal.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Gordon Hayward (garden designer, circa 2010); Kendra Masicioli (sundial garden, 2013); Mary Hope Lewis Ford (horticulturist/conservationist, 1956-1965); Jane Righter (rosarian, 1925-1941).

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Connecticut -- Greenwich  Search this

Formal gardens  Search this

Vegetable gardening  Search this

Genre/Form:

Digital images

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File CT874

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb601c4e6e6-9d89-4fd7-b4a0-18674e7e17d2

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33368

Provenance:

The French Broad River Garden Club Foundation  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

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Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File NC028

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6a98eb38b-1d93-41e0-a478-a24036b09d32

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref12940

Former owner:

Milman, Harry  Search this

Milman, Ada  Search this

Landscaper:

Van Der Pol, Marius  Search this

Medeiros, Eduardo  Search this

Architect:

Tafel, Edgar  Search this

Krosinsky, Marvin  Search this

Frauwirth, Martin  Search this

Sculptor:

Turnbull, William  Search this

King, William  Search this

Newman, Howard  Search this

Jajac, Jeff  Search this

Landscape designer:

Haskell, Allen C.  Search this

Horticulturist:

Haskell, Allen C.  Search this

Provenance:

Garden Club of Buzzards Bay  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Levin Garden (Dartmouth, Massachusetts)

United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Bristol County -- Dartmouth

Scope and Contents:

The folder includes a list of slides and worksheet.

General:

"There is an enclosed rose garden, shade garden and serpentine lawns surrounding the house. The house was designed by an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright. Stone walls set off species of daylilies. There is an natural pond area and outdoor sculpture."

The garden won the 1995 Gold Medal Visiting Garden Award from the Massachusetts Horicultural Society.

Persons associated with the property include: Harry and Ada Milman (former owners, 1946-1971); Marius Van Der Pol (landscaper, 1947); Eduardo Medeiros (landscaper, 1971); Edgar Tafel (architect, 1946); Allen C. Haskell (landscape designer and horticulturist, 1971-1979); Marvin Krosinsky (architect, 1971); Martin Frauwirth (architect, 1971); William Turnbull (sculptor); William King (sculptor); Howard Newman (sculptor); and Jeff Jajac (sculptor).

Related Materials:

Levin Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (16 35 mm. slides)

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- Massachusetts -- Dartmouth  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, File MA154

See more items in:

The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Massachusetts

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6e4a45439-adb8-418e-9e34-8941535aef07

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref17598