Gardens Of The Gilded Age

Author : M. Christine Klim Doell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of the Gilded Age written by M. Christine Klim Doell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens of the Gilded Age -- The influence of style and dilemma of taste -- Verdant frames: Landscape elements and their artful arrangement -- Art out-of-doors: The embellishment of the grounds -- Flower gardens: Great effects by small means -- Maintaining the image -- Photographic portraits of five New York state gardens: Renwick-Yates Castle, Syracuse, N.Y. -- "Lorenzo," Casenovia, N.Y. -- "Box Hill," St James, Long Island -- "Cottage Lawn," Oneida, N.Y. -- "Sonnenberg," Canandaigua, N.Y.

Author : M. Christine Klim Doell
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ISBN 13 : 9781684450107
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of the Gilded Age written by M. Christine Klim Doell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mac Griswold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of American Gardens written by Mac Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1991-09-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging tribute to America's grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners, this book sweeps across the country to present over 500 of the nation's most exquisite gardens and the people who built them. In addition to a wealth of horticultural details, we learn of the garden-maker's flamboyant private and public lives--of the gossip, parties, dreams, politics, and economic one-upmanship of the period. 280 illustrations, 130 in full color.

Author : Jackie L. Perkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardening the Gilded Age written by Jackie L. Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age was a time of rapid change in the United States' history. In contrast to the extensive literature regarding wilderness and the founding of environmental organizations during the period, relatively little has been written about the gardens of private residences and the impact these gardens have had on today's environment. These gardens, and the individuals who designed and provided for them, were at the forefront of the introduction of many new and exotic plants to the American landscape. This thesis explores two built environments, North Carolina's Biltmore Estate and the Barker Mansion in Indiana, and how these environments and human innovation interacted in domestic spaces, as well as how that interaction went on to shape broader landscapes for decades to come.

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Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934080
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescuing Eden written by and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From simple 18th- and early 19th-century gardens to the lavish estates of the Gilded Age, the gardens started by 1930s inmates at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to the centuries-old camellias at Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina—Rescuing Eden celebrates the history of garden design in the United States, with 28 examples that have been saved by ardent conservationists and generous private owners, and opened to the public. The United States has a rich tradition of landscape design, with gardens on a scale that rivaled the great gardens of Europe, but in the absence of specific institutions dedicated to their preservation, many of these “ephemeral collaborations between man and nature” were lost—during the wars, economic depressions, and social upheavals that swept the country in the mid-20th-century, or to creeping development and urban sprawl. The surviving gardens presented here were selected for the drama of their original creation and rescue and for their historical and horticultural importance. Ranging from wonderful to woebegone, each has its own character, and each has been brought back from the brink through a combination of imagination and tenacity. Discover The Kampong in Miami, Florida, planted with hundreds of tropical rarities from Southeast Asia by legendary plant explorer Dr. David Fairchild; Barnsley Gardens in Georgia, one of the few antebellum gardens surviving in the South, planted with 200 varieties of roses; the Lynchburg, Virginia garden created by Harlem Renaissance poet and civil rights activist Anne Spencer; the eccentric Ladew Topiary Gardens, with 15 garden rooms and a topiary foxhunt; the Belle Epoque grandeur of the Untermyer Garden in Yonkers, New York; and many others across the country, in Kentucky, Texas, Michigan, Maine, Rhode Island, and California. Each garden has been specially photographed by noted landscape and garden photographer Curtice Taylor, and introduced with authoritative and engaging text from design historian Caroline Seebohm, encouraging readers to appreciate the landscapes that serve not only as windows on American history, but living, flourishing pleasure grounds for botanists, horticulturalists, and nature lovers throughout the United States.

Author : Arleen A. Levee
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 : 9781911282594
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Garden written by Arleen A. Levee and published by Giles. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling story about the decline and rebirth of a 100 year old garden.

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Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1580932770
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of the Hudson Valley written by and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majesty of the Hudson River has captivated both artists and visitors for generations, and the gardens along its banks have a special character. Those created for the Gilded Age estates are more formal; private gardens respond directly to the rolling landscape and mature forests. The area is a crucible for the development of American landscape design since the major figures—Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, and Fletcher Steele—all worked in the Hudson Valley. Gardens of the Hudson Valley focuses on the historic landscape and how gardens have been integrated into it. Photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daly have selected twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, including famous estate gardens like Kykuit, Boscobel, the Vanderbilt Mansion, and Olana (all open to the public) and private gardens that combine sweeping views and lush plantings. Garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner describe each of the gardens in detail, focusing on the history of the site and the strategies for design and plant materials.

Author : Louise Shelton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Gardens in America written by Louise Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Weishan
Publisher : Studio Books
ISBN 13 : 9780670894260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Victorian Garden written by Michael Weishan and published by Studio Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Michael Weishan, host of the long-running PBS series The Victory Garden, comes the first gardening book of its kind. From a Victorian Garden offers a unique landmark approach to traditional gardening by bringing back to life the lush splendor of an actual Victorian garden via period photographs, letters, and journals, and using these records as a guide for today's landscapes. In From a Victorian Garden, Weishan provides the reader with a distinctive two-pronged approach to the process of creating a historically accurate period garden. He first tells the story of the O'Reilly family and Point Ellice House, the Victorian home and garden they built more than a century ago in British Columbia. Point Ellice, long considered to be one of western Canada's finest collections of Victoriana still in its original setting, remained in the O'Reilly family from 1868 through 1975. The remarkable historical records left by this family then became a point of departure from which Weishan shows the reader how to replicate the magnificence of a well-planned and executed turn-of-the-last-century landscape. Using the gardens of Point Ellice as a guide, Michael Weishan shows readers how to re-create the romance of the Victorian garden right in their own backyards, from simple projects such as growing period annuals to more advanced gardening skills, such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying out a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. A must-have, highly accessible addition to every gardener's library, From a Victorian Garden is at once a journey back in time to the gilded age of gardening as well as an up-to-data reference for creating period landscapes today. Michael Weishan is a twenty-year veteran in the field of historical gardening. In addition to being principal of his own landscape design firm, Michael Weishan and Associates, Weishan is also the host of PBS's The Victory Garden as well as the gardening editor for Country Living Magazine and contributing editor to Country Living Gardener. He lives outside of Boston in a restored 1852 farmhouse surrounded by three acres of gardens Book jacket.

Author : Sam Watters
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ISBN 13 : 9780926494152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens for a Beautiful America 1895-1935 written by Sam Watters and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the opening of the 20th century, Americans looked out their windows and saw a landscape that had radically changed since their countryside childhoods. Since the close of the Civil War, the nation had become a land of industrial cities. Smokestacks, bl