Planting plan for Formal Garden

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Planting plan for Formal Garden

Category: Archive

Property: Castle Hill on the Crane Estate

Title: Planting plan for Formal Garden

Type: Landscape and garden documents and designs

Description: Planning designs of the Formal Garden to be placed around the Italian Renaissance Revival Villa at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts. This one-page design, the first sheet of garden plan no. 72, contains drawings of the planting plan for the formal garden with numbers indicating where planting should occur. The design is formatted as a floor plan. The Olmsted Brothers were a landscape architecture firm based out of Brookline, Massachusetts who operated from 1898 to 1961 under this name who were the sons of architect Frederick Law Olmsted who designed Central Park in New York City. The firm designed the formal gardens around the Italian Renaissance Revival Villa in 1911. Much of the garden still remains intact.

Creator: Olmsted Brothers

Date: 1911

Extent: 1 plan

Object ID: CH.MS.016

Subjects: Gardens

Rights: CC BY-NC-ND The Crane Family Collection is the physical property of The Trustees of Reservations. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.

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2016-05-17