Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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The Olmsted Brothers and Richard T. Crane, Jr at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Incomplete information and misattributions have distorted the reporting of the history of the gardens at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Since 1949 the Trustees of Reservations, the nation's oldest conservation organization, has presided over this estate (figure 1). Its conservatorship has produced a few studies, including Peter Hornbeck's Historic Landscape Preservation and Maintenance Policies and Procedures Jor the Richard T. Crane, Jr. Memorial Reservations Castle Hill (Trustees of Reservations, 1977) and, in 1984, an engineers' structural report for the estate's buildings and two of the gardens. One academic essay by Eleanor Pope, ‘Castle Hill gardens and grounds’ (a paper for the Radcliffe Seminars, 1981), relied on Hornbeck. In 1992 the Trustees published an official brochure, but it, like the works that preceded it, parroted hearsay, all but ignoring the Olmsted correspondence at the Library of Congress and altogether omitting the records of the architects of the original house, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.1 These reports consistently give false attributions for two out of the five garden areas. They reiterate Sidney Shurcliff's claim in his privately printed memoir, Upon the Road Argilla (Boston, 1958), that his father Arthur Shurcliff designed the now-defunct maze. On the other hand, they mistakenly give the Olmsted Brothers credit for laying out part of the ‘Grande Allée.’2
The Olmsted Brothers and Richard T. Crane, Jr at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Incomplete information and misattributions have distorted the reporting of the history of the gardens at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Since 1949 the Trustees of Reservations, the nation's oldest conservation organization, has presided over this estate (figure 1). Its conservatorship has produced a few studies, including Peter Hornbeck's Historic Landscape Preservation and Maintenance Policies and Procedures Jor the Richard T. Crane, Jr. Memorial Reservations Castle Hill (Trustees of Reservations, 1977) and, in 1984, an engineers' structural report for the estate's buildings and two of the gardens. One academic essay by Eleanor Pope, ‘Castle Hill gardens and grounds’ (a paper for the Radcliffe Seminars, 1981), relied on Hornbeck. In 1992 the Trustees published an official brochure, but it, like the works that preceded it, parroted hearsay, all but ignoring the Olmsted correspondence at the Library of Congress and altogether omitting the records of the architects of the original house, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.1 These reports consistently give false attributions for two out of the five garden areas. They reiterate Sidney Shurcliff's claim in his privately printed memoir, Upon the Road Argilla (Boston, 1958), that his father Arthur Shurcliff designed the now-defunct maze. On the other hand, they mistakenly give the Olmsted Brothers credit for laying out part of the ‘Grande Allée.’2
The Olmsted Brothers and Richard T. Crane, Jr at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Cutler, Phoebe (Autor:in)
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes ; 18 ; 120-129
01.06.1998
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
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