Landscape plan of retaining wall foundation in Chinese Garden

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Landscape plan of retaining wall foundation in Chinese Garden

Category: Archive

Property: Naumkeag

Title: Landscape plan of retaining wall foundation in Chinese Garden

Type: Landscape and garden documents and designs

Description: Landscape plan of retaining wall foundation in Chinese Garden. Pencil plan by Fletcher Steele (1885-1971), drawn by REB. Additional information on item: drawing #251-168; Fletcher Steele was a landscape architect who did the majority of his work in private gardens. One of his few extant commissions is at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a summer home that was built for Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) and inherited by Choate's daughter, Mabel Choate (1870-1958). Steele designed gardens at Naumkeag for Mabel Choate from 1926 to 1958.

Creator: Steele, Fletcher

Date: 1937-08-23

Extent: 1 plan

Object ID: NK.MS.087

Subjects: Garden structures

Tags: Chinese Garden

Rights: CC BY-NC-ND The Mabel Choate Papers Regarding Naumkeag are the physical property of The Trustees of Reservations. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the archivist.

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2016-08-12