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In 1913 Steele embarked on a four-month tour of Europe to study European designs. Upon his return to America, he opened his own practice. His early garden plans are generally in the English Arts and crafts style of Gertrude Jekyll, Reginald Blomfield, and T. H. Mawson, but ornamented with Italianate detailing such as balustrades, hedges, urns, statuary, stone pineapples, and flights of water ...
The Flower Garden had geometric patterns and converging walks inspired by 17th century garden design, but the rest of Antrum House's gardens were more in the Georgian style. The garden landscape had a pergola and a nut orchard. Steele directed the creation of borders with mountain ashes , hemlock trees , and lilacs (Syringa vulgaris).
"Fletcher Steele and Naumkeag" — online video on the gardens and their designer. U.S. Department of the Interior: "Interior Secretary Designates 12 National Historic Landmarks" — Naumkeag is one of the 12 — April 4, 2007 press release. The Fletcher Steele Archives at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The house is located on an estate of 6 acres (2.428 hectares) with a garden, designed and developed in the 1960s by the famous landscape architect Fletcher Steele. The garden was Steele's last major landscaping project. [3]
In 1884, Joseph Choate, a lawyer and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, commissioned the prestigious architecture firm McKim, Mead & White to design the summer retreat with renowned ...
She and landscape designer Fletcher Steele restored the building, furnished it with 18th century pieces, and designed gardens to Steele's vision of what a colonial landscape might have been. Choate opened the house as a museum in 1930, and donated it (and eventually Naumkeag as well) to the Trustees of Reservations, who operate both properties ...
In 1916 Fletcher Steele submitted his design for a compact, walled garden — construction on the garden with its figurative statues continued for half a century. Charlotte Whitney Allen made all of the important funding decisions for the garden and had an idiosyncratic loathing of flowers in terms of garden aesthetics.
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