Organizational Profile: The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation

APT Bulletin ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Shary Page Berg
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Preservation ◽  
Historic Landscape Preservation ◽  
Historic Landscape

scholarly journals The English Garden at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens: Interpretation, Analysis, and Documentation of a Historic Garden Restoration

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Halbrooks
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Representation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Landscape Architect ◽  
Planting Design ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Landscape Preservation ◽  
National Significance ◽  
Historic Landscape Preservation ◽  
Historic Landscape

Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio, is a historical estate of national significance. Originally the home of the wealthy Seiberling family in the early 1900s, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens was designed by renowned Boston landscape architect Warren Manning between 1911 and 1917. In 1915, the English Garden, one of several garden rooms on the estate, was designed by Manning as a walled, hidden garden. Thirteen years later, the garden's style was reconceived and its spatial dimensions restructured by Ellen Biddle Shipman, the foremost among women landscape architects of that time. Historic photographs document the implementation and maintenance of Shipman's design from 1928 to 1946. After 1946, the English Garden, lacking proper maintenance, was transformed into a shady retreat under towering evergreens on its perimeter. Few of the plantings from the Shipman period remained by 1989, whereas the architectural and structuring elements of the garden were still intact. The decision to restore the English Garden to Shipman's planting design provides a highly accurate representation of the garden during a particular period in its history (1928–46). Architectural rehabilitation of the garden's walls, walks, pathways, and pools was followed by an exacting restoration of the plantings according to Shipman's plans. In 1991, restoration of the English Garden was completed and it was opened to the public in 1992. Objectives of this paper are to 1) illustrate and illuminate contemporary historic landscape preservation practice and theory as applied to the English Garden at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens and 2) document the horticultural methods associated with this historic garden restoration.

scholarly journals Cultural Landscape Preservation and Social–Ecological Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2593
Author(s):  
María Fe Schmitz ◽  
Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Sustainable Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Landscape Preservation

Cultural landscapes are the result of social–ecological processes that have co-evolved throughout history, shaping high-value sustainable systems [...]

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