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:
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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 -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- River Bend
Scope and Contents:
33 digital images (2011. 2022-2023) and 1 digital file folder.
Biographical / Historical:
The owner's garden-related activities include leadership roles in garden clubs and nature centers. She championed, established and led Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center where children and adults can partake in environmental education and outdoor experiences.
General:
River Bend had five acres of Milwaukee River frontage, a house built in the 1970s and fields and former cow pastures when the owners bought the property in 1990. They embarked on an extensive project of landscape and garden design that included installing a swimming pool, tennis court, perennial and native plant gardens, and two ponds with a connecting waterfall. Due to the high clay content of the soil the ponds were engineered to accept and recirculate run-off water, with additional run-off channeled to the river. The tennis court was sited on a higher elevation, and dirt excavated during construction of the pool and ponds was used to build berms for privacy. The house is approached from a curved driveway landscaped with rolling berms planted with green ash, blue spruce, honey locust and maple with under-plantings of lilies, spirea, lilac, hydrangea and lamium. The circle in front of the house has another green ash, river birch, maple and pots of purple petunias. An arbor with a honeysuckle vine over a bluestone path accesses the gardens and features behind the house.
The first summer garden has echinacea, phlox, daisies and wild geranium, and another perennial garden planted on a berm across the lawn has Joe Pye weed, yarrow, sage, astilbe, salvia, and many colorful annuals perennials. The multi-level terrace enclosed by three wings of the house is used for dining and entertaining with black wrought iron tables and chairs, black and white upholstery, and many pots of colorful annuals. A gingko tree grows on a bluestone and brick deck, with planted pots of geraniums that are wintered over in the greenhouse. Steps lead to the swimming pool, followed by an expansive lawn for outdoor activities, another furnished terrace outside the tennis court, and a pergola covered with wisteria.
The lower pond has a sandy beach and pier with a bench, with willow, olive and highbush cranberry planted around the perimeter. The upper pond is bordered by roses, iris, weigela and a native garden along with fieldstone boulders around the perimeter. Boulders in the waterfall were placed so the falling water creates a pleasing sound. The ponds were home for two swans and their offspring for many years. A buried pump recirculates water from the lower to the upper pond so the water does not become stagnant. A greenhouse with skylights and large windows is attached to the house, used for wintering over as well as starting seeds for zucchini, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, and other summer vegetables for a fenced ten by twenty-two- foot vegetable garden. Finally the property is bordered by woodlands with many trees with spectacular fall color.
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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Sponsor:
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Guthrie Co., Cass Twp., Sec. 29. One mile n. of Panora along the roadside at the margin of a swamp. Also living in the rose garden near the Botany greenhouse and in the College Arboretum., Iowa, United States, North America
The folder includes plans, an information worksheet, a slide list, and color photocopies of images of the property.
General:
"The five acre French country garden was developed around a large stone house that sits high on an island in Oswego Lake. The meandering paths connect the garden's major features, including a formal rose garden, stone gazebo, natural ponds and waterfall, formal sculpture pool, stone boathouse, cantilevered stone dock, swimming pool and terrace, parking court and a parterre. The unusual planting, ranging from Cotinus obovatus and Poncius trifoliate to Corylopsis paucifloria and Coptis trifoliata are located in an open Douglas fir and Oregon white oak forested hillside."
Persons and firms associated with the property include: Carl J. Jantzen (former owner, 1929); Harry K. Coffey (former owner, 1948); Carl Halvorson (former owner, 1956); Tommy Tomson (historic preservationist); John Warner (landscape architect, 1987); Craig Kiest (landscape architect, 1987); Thomas Hardy (sculptor); Ertz, Burns and Co. (architects); and Huntington & Kiest (landscape architects).
Related Materials:
Related holdings consist of 1 folder (20 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:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes plans, information worksheet and a press release and article from "Traditional Home".
General:
"The house is 70 years old with an estate size garden. The garden is formal with a rose garden that has been redesigned. The carriage house has rhododendrons and other plants that soften its look. There is a courtyard and reflecting pond which has a spring display of plants. The rock garden is divided into a wet and a dry side."
"The garden itself appears to be designed by Mrs. Mabel Kerr, Sr., possibly influenced by Olmsted's work at Elk Rock garden."
Persons associated with the property include: William Whidden (former owners from 1910 to 1923); Thomas Kerr, Sr. (former owner from 1924 to 1944); Thomas Kerr, Jr. (former owner from 1944 to 1980); Willam Whidden (architect from 1910 to 1915); Richard Marlitt (architect from 1960 to 1970); Keith Jellum (sculptor); Henry Hillman (sculptor); Carter Case (architect 1993); Jay Miner (gardener and artist); Thorton Ladd (architect and landscape architect); Sally McIntosh-Jones (photographer).
Related Materials:
High Hatch related holdings consist of 1 folder (20 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:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a garden description, slide list, plan view drawings, a National Register of Historic Places-Registration Form, and a worksheet
General:
A classic 3.44 acre central-axis garden; monumental Burford holly topiary balls; formal rose garden; boxwood hedges; espaliered pear and apple trees; grape arbor; lilac allee; reflective pool nestled in the expanse of lawn; monumental rhododendrons; Japanese maple grown from a seed brought back to Portland from the garden of the Japanese emperor in 1935; Belgian cobblestones; stone pathways; rock walls throughout the garden; stone barbeque; cutting gardens of various perennials, including peonies, phlox, and doronicum; kitchen herb garden; tennis court; and viewing pavilion.
Persons associated with the property include: Mr. and Mrs. John V. G. Posey (former owners, 1925-1978); Ellis F. Lawrence (architect, 1923-1925); Arthur Erfeldt (landscape architect, 1950s); Lord and Schryver (landscape architects, 1950s); William L. Fletcher (architect, 1988); and Larry Kirkland (sculptor, 1990).
Related Materials:
Green Gate related holdings consist of 1 folder (19 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
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Sponsor:
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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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Sponsor:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
1997 May.
Scope and Contents:
Entry to rose garden with Edward Lutyens bench and new glass Henry Hillman sculpture.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
1997 May.
Scope and Contents:
View back through rose garden to the old carriage house with the cupola (or high hatch). Vertical slide.
Collection Restrictions:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
1997 May.
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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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
1930
General:
Facing west from air. Aerial view of gardens from formal rose gardens West (foreground) to East.
Collection Restrictions:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
1990
Collection Restrictions:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
06/01/1991
General:
Facing bandstand from rose garden.
Collection Restrictions:
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Sponsor:
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United States of America -- Oregon -- Multnomah County -- Portland
Date:
06/01/1991
General:
Facing rose garden from bandstand.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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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.