The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation. By David Grayson Allen. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2007. x, 317 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-55553-679-4.)

2009 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1183-1184
Author(s):  
J. M. Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Historic Site ◽  
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 Battlefield to Baseball Diamond: The Niagara Parks Commission and Queenston Heights Park

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Young
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Playing Fields ◽  
Historic Landscape

Between the War of 1812’s end and the late 1920s Queenston Heights was redefined from being primarily a place of memory associated with the War of 1812 to being for the most part a place of recreation. The site of a significant War of 1812 battle, until the late nineteenth century it drew growing numbers of tourists, many of whom wanted to feel closer to its wartime past. Beginning in the late nineteenth century the site’s popularity for recreation increased, and by the 1920s Queenston Heights Park was a destination where thousands of people went to enjoy recreational activities such as picnics and sports. The Niagara Parks Commission, which owned the site from 1895, facilitated this transformation. The Commission saw Queenston Heights more as a park than a historic site and worked to create a recreational space that would draw tourists and increase revenue. By the 1920s the park featured attractions such as playing fields, picnic shelters, tennis courts, a restaurant, and a souvenir stand. There was little opposition to these changes, which at times jeopardized the historic landscape. Although Queenston Heights’ commemorative meanings were no longer closely associated with its battlefield landscape, these meanings were increasingly invested in the imposing Brock Monument. This allowed the Commission’s development of the battlefield to continue unabated, and under the Commission the landscape of the former battlefield became increasingly distanced from its wartime past.

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