United States of America -- Maryland -- Anne Arundel County -- Annapolis
Scope and Contents:
The folders include worksheets, photocopies of garden tour descriptions of the property, and other information.
General:
Located on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Holly Beach Farm was the home of the Labrot family, originally from Louisiana, and active in horseracing circles. The Labrots purchased the property around 1900, and in 1907 built a Georgian-style mansion designed by architect Douglas H. Thomas, Jr. The extensive grounds were landscaped with expansive lawns and garden borders that stretched down to the bayshore. Unique features included a pergola and gazebo done in a rustic work style. The house, which has recently been restored, was sold by the family in 1994, while much of the land was transferred to the State of Maryland in 1944 to create Sandy Point State Park. A more recent land transfer has protected 300 additional acres, which are now under the aegis of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Most of the images in this collection were taken by Thomas W. Sears around 1914, shortly after the gardens were first developed. It is likely that Sears was the landscape architect responsible for designing this job.
Persons associated with the property include Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Labrot (former owners (ca. 1900-1930); Mr. and Mrs. William H. Labrot (former owners, ca. 1930-1950); Douglas H. Thomas, Jr. (architect, 1907); and Thomas W. Sears (landscape architect, 1914).
Related Materials:
Holly Beach Farm related holdings consist of 2 folders (41 glass negatives; 1 lantern slide; 3 slides (photographs))
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Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection, 1900-1966.
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Anne Arundel County -- Annapolis
General:
"The Ridout House was built in 1763 by John Ridout. He came to Maryland as Provincial Secretary to Governor Horatio Sharpe. John Ridout married in May 1765 to the daughter of Samuel Ogle. The house is two stories and has one of the oldest surviving gardens in Annapolis. The house still has some of its original terracing and old plantings."
Persons associated with the property include: Dr. William Govane Ridout (former owner); John Ridout (former owner in 1753); redesigned by Rose Greely in 1953 (landscape architect).
Related Materials:
Ridout House Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (3 35 mm. slides. (photographs) and 2 photonegatives)
Collection Restrictions:
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Georgia Plantation named by Dr. Charles Carroll in 1732.
General:
"In 1756, Charles Carroll, Barrister, began construction of Mount Clare at Georgia Plantation. He named his new summer residence after his grandmother, Mary Clare Dunn, and his sister, Mary Clare Carroll (Maccubbin). The house was built in the Georgian style of soft pink brick, laid in allheader bond, most of which would have been made on the plantation. A series of grass ramps led from the bowling green down shaded terraces or falls. A sweeping view spread across the lower fields to the waters of the Patapsco River, about one mile away. There was a greenhouse with "orange and lemon trees just ready to bear besides which is a new building, a pinery, where the gardener expects some (pineapples) to ripen next summer." Mrs. Carroll had a great interest in horticulture. Contemporary letters indicate that pineapples and broccoli were raised in the pinery and that General Washington wrote Mrs. Carroll asking her advice on plants to grow at Mount Vernon as well as information on the construction and heating of a greenhouse. Entrance to the house on the land side is by the carriage entrance through a columned portico paved with gray and white marble, above which is a chamber with a fine Palladian window." (National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Maryland, website) The museum, in the Carroll Park neighborhood of Baltimore, is open for tours.
Persons associated with the garden include: Charles Carroll (former owner, 1750); National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Maryland (owners, 1917-present)
Related Materials:
Mount Clare related holdings consist of 2 folders (1 35 mm. slide, glass photonegatives, and glass lantern slides)
See others in:
Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection, 1900-1966.
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Baltimore
Scope and Contents:
Rusty Rocks related holdings consist of 2 folders and 173 lantern slides including 153 autochomes. Folder 1 includes worksheets, photocopies of articles, and other information. Images 174-203 are autochromes.
General:
The two-acre property is situated in an abandoned rock quarry in Baltimore, Maryland. The home and terraces were created using rocks from the quarry; the unusual properties of the stone gave Rusty Rocks its name. The house was built in 1907 within Roland Park, an early planned suburb laid out by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and Edward H. Bouton, president of the Roland Park Company. Bouton and his wife, Luella, were the original owners of Rusty Rocks. Luella Bouton transformed the landscape there into a wildflower sanctuary. A series of terraces, shaded by giant oaks, sycamores, and dogwood, evoked the feel of extensive woodlands.
The garden included wisteria, wildflowers, mertensia, and violets. The space acted as a setting for community gatherings and wildflower preservation advocacy work by Luella Bouton.
Persons associated with the garden include Edward H. & Luella Bouton (former owners, 1907-1930s?), A. J. Tormey (former owner, 1940s?), Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cloud (former owners, 1950s?), Joseph D. Minutilli (former owner, 1960s-1990s?).
Collection Restrictions:
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Hubbard Garden related holdings consist of 2 folders, 60 35 mm. slides (1995) and 44 digital images (2018). Folders include numerous photocopies of articles about the garden.
General:
The two-acre property has a 1937 Colonial revival house and gardens that have been reworked many times since 1969 when the current owners moved in. The sloping property has been terraced, replacing a grassy hillside in back with dense plantings and winding stone walkways that lead eventually to a woodland garden. Along the front of the house there are three courtyards connected by a broad brick walkway that culminates at an antique cast iron bench painted turquoise blue; the doorway to the house is through another small private courtyard off to one side under a rough timber pergola. A curving 840-square-foot swimming pool with a dark gray reflective interior has a stone wall with fountains. The owners have collected thousands of trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs that fill the terraces in front and back as well as screen their property. Conifers that have year round interest include Japanese umbrella pine, blue spruce, hinoki cypress, and Japanese cedar. There are modernist sculptures places around the upper terraces, along with a fish pond. Raised beds for growing vegetables now grow tulips and other flowers. Dwarf conifers and sedum are planted in hypertufa troughs. Other plant collections include more than 150 varieties of daylilies, hydrangeas, azaleas, rhododendron and ornamental grasses that were amassed by landscape architect Kurt Bluemel. The areas designed by Bluemel hug the hillside with curving terraces supported by dry stone walls that bring the gardens into closer association with the house. Perennials are planted in large drifts while evergreens are used as backdrops and screens. Plants that succumb are replaced with different varieties and deer fencing was installed in 2009.
Persons associated with the property include: Dr. and Mrs. Henrich (former owners, 1937-1969); T. Worth Jamison (1893-1964) (architect, 1937); Kurt Bluemel (1933-2014) (landscape designer, 1990); Ingrid Ernestl (gardener, 1994-2010); Ulrich Ruckriem (sculptor); Ian Aurbuch (sculptor); Matthew Harris (sculptor); Costas Velatsis (sculptor); Anthony Card (sculptor); Wade Saunders (sculptor); and Jon Iserwood (sculptor).
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Owings Mills -- Baltimore
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of images and an illustrated history of the family, house and garden.
General:
The five-acre Brightside gardens were built from 1983 to 2014 on a property with a large country house of white-painted bricks and a slate roof, surrounded by woodland shade and poor soil. Described as a dialog between the heart and the head there are 54 discrete garden areas, including Lutyens-style stairways, a potager, a cemetery for family pets with a statue of a beloved pug, gardens named after the neoclassical statues within them or the friends that designed or inspired them, a pool garden. Formal garden rooms are near the house and more rustic woodlands gardens are further from the house. Some of the hardscapes of the formal gardens were designed to echo the neoclassical lines of Baltimore Federal furniture. Each garden has a theme inspired by a quotation from philosophy, religion, literature or poetry that bespeaks the spirit of that area, with plantings that refer to the symbolic Victorian language of flowers. The owners have been inspired by their visits to hundreds of gardens and the Greek and Roman ideals embodied in neoclassicism and the American Federal and empire styles from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Among their favorites are the English garden design collaborations of Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens, William Kent's Rousham, Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and the fantasy elven gardens in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
In 1990 woodlands were cleared of understory and hundreds of tons of soil were deposited under the remaining tall trees and dogwood to sculpt a new landscape. Within one week 500 rhododendron, 65,000 fern and 65,000 pachysandra seedlings were planted. There are six levels of woodland gardens descending from a ridgeline, 2,000 specimen trees, and amphitheaters and berms that have altered the contours of the lawns. Since most of the property is shaded native plants and shade tolerant specimen plants are featured. Garden ornaments include pedigreed statues, antique urns, birdbaths, boot scrapers and gates. Formal garden borders near the house in the room named Jessica's garden for its designer contain more colorful and sun-loving plants, including delphinium, peony, phlox, lilac, hydrangea and butterfly bush. For the owners these lyrical gardens are a retreat they liken to medieval gardens where man imposed rationality and beauty in a small part of the chaotic world.
Persons associated with the garden include Mr. and Mrs. S. Bonsal White (former owners, 1950's); Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Krongard (former owners, 1960's); Mr. and Mrs. John Lalley (former owners, 1970's); Charles M. Ness (architect, 1950); James A. Snead (architect, circa 1995-1998).
Related Materials:
Brightside related holdings consist of 1 folder (22 digital images)
Collection Restrictions:
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Garden of William and Nancy Calk (Baltimore, Maryland)
United States of America -- Maryland -- Baltimore City
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets.
General:
Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this garden was established in 1980. The garden is planted as a shade, free form or woodland garden with trees and bushes that grow well in the shade including many shade perennials. Since the establishment of the garden in 1980, the owner has added all the perennials and many of the shrubs and bushes.
The land on which this home and garden is located on the former site of the summer house of I. Freeman Rasin who was appointed Naval Officer of Baltimore by President Cleveland in 1886. The property was adjacent to what was then St. Charles College, a seminary.
Persons associated with the garden include Mr. and Mrs. Hildebrand (former owner, 1941), Mr. and Mrs. George Lane (former owner, 1958), Poehlmann's Landscaping (1980), Pinehurst Landscaping Company (1993-1994).
Related Materials:
Garden of William and Nancy Calk related holdings consist of 1 folder (9 slides (photographs))
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Bethesda
Scope and Contents:
The folders include worksheets, a garden plan with plant list, and photocopies of book excerpts and articles about the garden.
General:
Under development since the late 1970s, this nearly two-acre garden site is a tranquil blend of plantings surrounding the owner's home. Building on Lester Collins's basic design, Oehme, van Sweden and Associates added an upper and lower pond connected by a small waterfall. Garden features include multi-level terraces, stone walls, broad stairs, intricate fences and gates, perennial borders, ornamental grasses, and raised cutting beds. There is a large swimming pool at the lower end of the property and a woodland frames it all. The garden's overall ambience benefits from its owner, a talented floral designer who offers classes from her home.
Persons and firms associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. K. Wagner (former owners, before 1976); Lester Collins (landscape architect, 1977); James van Sweden (landscape architect, 1986); Donald Lethbridge (architect, 1976); Ella Toulin (sculptor, 1985), and Oehme, van Sweden and Associates, Inc. (landscape designers, 1986).
Related Materials:
Jacobs Garden related holdings consist of 2 folders (36 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Bethesda
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a worksheet, a copy of the garden plan, and two brochures about the garden. The garden is noted for its outstanding azaleas; other plantings complement this focus.
General:
Located on the campus of the Landon School, this 2.5 acre garden contains 10,000 azaleas of more than 500 varieties, including Glenn Dales, Chugai hybrids, Kurumes, and Southern Indian hybrids. The garden is named in honor of Tharon and Milo Perkins, who began the garden in the mid-1940s as a memorial to their two sons, both Landon graduates. The original garden design was created by local landscape architect Rose Greely; the Landon School acquired the property in 1954. In addition to the azaleas, many of which were propagated by the Perkins's (Mr. Perkins co-authored The Azalea Handbook), the gardens also include rhododendrons, rare tree peonies, Pieris, boxwood, perennials of all types, a collection of wildflowers, and a variety of hardwoods.
Unique to the garden are the names of the 30 distinct, numbered beds, originally chosen by Mr. and Mrs. Perkins to be descriptive of physical, botanical, and other attributes of the individual sites.
Persons associated with the property include: Charles E. Wainwright (former owner); George B. Springston (former owner); Charles R. and Hilda J. French (former owners); Milo and Tharon Perkins (former owners); Rose Greely (landscape designer); Frederick P. Lee (horticulturist); Ben Y. Morrison (horticulturist); Albert Close (horticulturist); and Wilmer Foster (gardener).
Related Materials:
Perkins Azalea Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (8 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Bethesda
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a worksheet and copies of the garden plan with plant names.
General:
This compact garden was designed by Lawson Carter and features an angular deck that steps down onto a small lawn. The yard is bordered with well-planted beds and has a children's treehouse at the rear. The plants have been carefully chosen to complement the space.
Persons associated with the garden include: Lawson Carter (landscape designer, 1997).
Related Materials:
Voorhees Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (18 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Bethesda
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a work sheet, slide view plan, map, history of The Landon School, sample of azalea work by Frederick P. Lee, biography of Frederick P. Lee, plant list, and dedication ceremony of Lee Azalea Garden at the US National Arboretum.
General:
The house was built in 1927. The garden was begun at the same time and is divided into a series of outdoor rooms. The reflecting lily pool, which begins from the patio of the house and terminates with a small fountain, is a focal point of a small private garden. The garden, designed by Frederic P. Lee, a lawyer and author of The Azalea Book, features an abundance of azalea varieties, some of which were imported from Japan. Lee was most interested in the science of plant growth, and tended to crowd in as many specimens as possible. The current owners have made no additions to the garden. The original layout is the same and the majority of the foundation trees are still alive.
Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. Frederic P. Lee (former owners, 1927-1968).
Related Materials:
The Lee Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (14 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Bethesda
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a work sheet and slide view plan.
General:
This enclosed garden evolved over a period of 32 years through the creative efforts of its owners. The name, Plaisance, is a French word meaning pleasant. The intent of the garden is to provide a peaceful haven. The garden features include a small swimming pool, and several very small pools that connect and trickle into the small sitting areas. Most areas in the garden are shady, and the plant selection includes azaleas, dogwoods, perennial begonias, native grasses, and a Japanese maple.
Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. William Alexander (former owners and garden designers, 1972-2004).
Related Materials:
Plaisance related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Bethesda
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a work sheet, history of property up to 1961, copies of articles, tree list (1984), and site plans.
Former Title:
Milton I.
General:
The original estate consisted of 800 acres and stretched from the District of Columbia into Montgomery County, Maryland. Lucille Ezekiel and Dan Kiley created the basic layout of the gardens. Today, there is a driveway approaching the historic home from the northeast. The current owners added a pond to the rear of the house and walkways in 2005.
Persons associated with the garden and property include: Nathan Loughborough (former owner, 1806-1847); Loughborough family (former owners, 1847-1925); Albert Walker (former owner, 1925-1933); Mordecai and Lucille Ezekiel (former owners, 1933-1983); Dan Kiley (designer, 1939-1944); Matthew Evans (landscape architect, 1986-1990); Kathy Kehoe (designer, 1995-2000); Syd Porterfield (designer, 2000-present); and Richard Keugle (designer of pond, 2005).
Related Materials:
Old Loughborough related holdings consist of 1 folder (10 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Queen Anne's County -- Centreville
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of articles and books concerning the house and property's colonial history, and an article and write-up of the current garden's history.
General:
Reed Creek Farm is a historic property comprised of 190 acres with an 18th century Colonial mansion site located on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The walled garden, designed by former owner Marcia R. Simmons along with landscape architect Barbara Paca (ASLA), complements the style of the house and was inspired by the gardens at Hadspen, an 18th century country estate in England. The color scheme emphasizes apricot and periwinkle flowers using plant material appropriate to the location. A tall brick wall and gates designed by Philip Logan protect the garden from strong winds off the Chesapeake Bay and keep animals out. Work was started in 2000 by defining geometric flower beds that are connected by goosefoot paths. The beds are planted in perennial and annual flowers, including lilies, lavender, crocosmia, scabiosa, hibiscus, peonies and roses. Flowers and flowering shrubs are planted densely in the beds to create an English cottage garden effect and to reduce the intrusion of weeds.
The walled garden extends from one side of the main house and two formal kitchen gardens hedged with boxwood sit in front of the house. A folly outside the walled garden was built from soil that was removed to install French drains, and was planted with lavender and poppies along a winding path that leads to a curved bench at the summit. The view from the folly includes Chesapeake Bay and the agricultural fields and orchards that comprise the rest of the property.
Former owner and garden designer Marcia R. Simmons (d. 2006) was interred in the garden wall. The garden is being maintained in her memory.
Landscape designer Barbara Paca owns the design firm Preservation Green; architect Philip Logan works at the firm.
Persons associated with the garden include Solomon Wright (1655-1717, patented and surveyed land, 1685); Colonel Thomas Wright (builder of house, circa 1775); members of the Wright family (former owners, 1685 -1960); Bradford Smith family (former owners, 1960-1996); Marcia and Raymond Simmons (former owners, 1996-2004); Barbara Paca, PhD., ASLA (landscape architect, 1999-present); Philip Logan (designer of wall and gate, 1999-2000); Marcia R. Simmons (garden designer, 1999-2006); Jeff Beall (caretaker of garden, 1986-present).
Related Materials:
Reed Creek Farm related holdings consist of 1 folder (16 digital images)
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.
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United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Chevy Chase
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, site plans, and other information.
Varying Form:
Cross Garden, formerly known as.
General:
Located on three-quarter acres in suburban Maryland was laid out in 1929 by Rose Ishbel Greely (b.1887-d.1969), the first licensed female landscape architect in Washington DC. Three terrace levels were built alongside the house to accommodate the sloping site, surrounded by low stone walls and with stone steps between levels. A pool with a fountain jet was installed at the terminus of level three and cast stone benches were placed along the side walls. Now mature trees growing outside the walls including pin oak, tulip magnolia, elm and overgrown mock orange keep the area shady in summer. Climbing hydrangea, English ivy and moss cover the walls. Azaleas, roses and iris add color to the garden and pachysandra is used as a ground cover inside and outside the walls.
Outside the walled garden the rest of the property has been planted lawn except during the ownership of Dr. Charles Whitman Cross (1854-1949). A retired geologist, Cross designed a rose garden, planting two thousand bushes and hybridizing new roses, including the deep crimson rambler called the "Chevy Chase" rose as well as roses named "Hon. Lady Lindsay"and "Mrs. Whitman Cross." In the late 1920s Dr. and Mrs. Cross founded the local chapter of the American Rose Society known as the Potomac Rose Society.
This garden was originally documented in the 1930s, at that time it was identified as the Cross Garden.
Persons associated with the garden include) Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver (former owners, 1899-1915); Commander and Mrs. Horace Macfarland (former owners, 1915-1924); Dr. and Mrs. Charles Whitman Cross (former owners, 1924-1945); Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glassie (former owners, 1945-1954); Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marsh (former owners, 1954-2013); Arthur Heaton (architect, 1899); Rose Ishbel Greely (landscape architect, 1929).
Related Materials:
Marsh Garden related holdings consist of 2 folders (3 photographic prints and 29 digital images)
See others in:
J. Horace McFarland collection, 1900-1962.
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.
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.
United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Chevy Chase
General:
"Hedges surround the front of this house creating a quiet country setting. In the early 1900s, it was this country setting near the Chevy Chase Country Club where horsemen and fox hunters donned their red coats to follow hounds. Clarence Moore, master of the Chevy Chase Country Hunt from January 16, 1899 to April 15, 1912, lived here until his death when he went down with the Titanic (April 15, 1912) returning with new hounds for the Chevy Chase Hunt."
"The natural woodland garden slopes down from the back of the house to a stream and abuts the expansive golf course of the Chevy Chase Club. Rough-hewn railroad tie steps and natural pine bark paths lead to meditation gardens where one can sit and reflect on the natural beauty of the garden and nearby sculptures and birdhouses. Two bridges, one with a wood frame, cross the stream allowing access to the entire back gardens. Perennials placed throughout the borders to create color from spring to fall are easily viewed from the back deck and side porch."
Persons associated with the property include: Clarence Moore (master of Chevy Chase Hunt and former owner from 1899 to April 15, 1912); Mr. and Mrs. Maury (former owners in 1930's); Mrs. Rouse (former owner in 1950s); Bentley Andrews (landscape architect, 1986-1989); Louise Roberts (front plantings and landscape, 1982); Mimi McBride (planting materials and planning, 1992); and Margaret K. Blommer (photographer and GCA volunteer, 1996).
Related Materials:
Clarence Moore Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (19 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.
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.
United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Chevy Chase
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a work sheet, slide view plan, copies of photographs, deed list; and information of events held at the house.
General:
Established in 1922, the 2/3 acre garden was planted in snowball bushes and rose bushes. Mrs. Nicholson planted over 400 peonies around the house, which are now in the perennial border. During World War II, the owners planted a large vegetable garden. The following owners spent time in Japan during the Vietnam War. From here, they were inspired to build a koi pond on the property. Current owners have added boxwoods, perennial border, a rose garden, and foundation plantings.
Persons associated with the garden include: Chevy Chase Land Company (former owner, 1921); Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Nicholson (former owners, 1922-1968); Commodore and Mrs. Charles Hartigan (former owners, 1968-1986); John Hyson (gardener during Nicholson's ownership); J. Sinces/C. Bowers Garden Gate Landscaping with Mrs. Charles Hartigan (design of fish pond and terrace, 1970); Alinio Moreno, Ali's Landscaping (perennial border, 1988); Virginia Leachman (boxwoods, rose garden, 1990); and Signe Ahl McCullough, Signes's Little Houses (playhouse, 1987).
Related Materials:
Leachman Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (13 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.
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.
United States of America -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Chevy Chase
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a work sheet, slide view plan, and plant list.
General:
Established from 1991-1992, the garden was built on three levels. A flagstone patio is on the house level. A small gold fish pond with a fountain set in a stone wall frames one end towered over by mature azaleas. A low wall topped by large boxwoods separate and shield from the patio a view of the swimming pool, which is surrounded by tall Burford hollies. The other half of the garden beyond the patio is reached by a wide stone stairway to the highest garden area of an oval grass center surrounded by perennial beds. This level features a gazebo and garden bench from which one can watch the moon rise over the pool.
Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Saunders (former owners, 1935); and Susan Feller of Garden Works Design (garden designer, 1991-1992).
Related Materials:
Moon Rise Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (10 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.
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.
