Object Details
Architect
Delano & Aldrich
Former owner
Brewster, Robert S.
Landscape architect
Shipman, Ellen Biddle, 1869-1950
Wadley & Smythe
Collection Creator
Garden Club of America
Collection Citation
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Scope and Contents
The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of book and journal article excerpts about the garden.
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General
Designed as a summer home by the firm of Delano & Aldrich, Avalon is located in a hilly, wooded area in Mt. Kisco, New York. Its principal landscape architects were Wadley & Smythe, followed by Ellen Shipman, who worked on the property in the 1920s. With its Italianate garden, Avalon features a vista extending from a swimming pool to a small temple. Another axis intersecting with the loggia leads through a wooded hill to a vista of another small temple. Below the residence a pergola leads to a walled elliptical informal flower garden featuring a small pool with two frog-shaped fountain heads. An irregularly shaped perennial bed surrounds this water feature.
Persons and firms associated with the garden include: Robert S. Brewster (former owner, 1912-?); Ellen Shipman (landscape architect, 1920s); Delano & Aldrich (architects, 1912); and Wadley & Smythe (landscape architects, 1912).
Place
Avalon (Mt. Kisco, New York)
United States of America -- New York -- Westchester County -- Mount Kisco
Topic
Gardens -- New York -- Mt. Kisco
Architect
Delano & Aldrich
Former owner
Brewster, Robert S.
Landscape architect
Shipman, Ellen Biddle, 1869-1950
Wadley & Smythe
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Sponsor
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Archival Repository
Archives of American Gardens
Identifier
AAG.GCA, File NY394
Type
Archival materials
Collection Rights
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Bibliography
Garden has been featured in Samuel Howe, American Country Houses of To-day (New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1915), pp. 118-123.
Garden has been featured in P.H. Elwood, Jr., ed., American Landscape Architecture (New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1924) pp. 36 and 180.
Garden has been featured in Augusta Owen Patterson, American Homes of To-day: Their Architectural Style, Their Environment, Their Characteristics (New York: Macmillan, 1924), pp. 334-335.
Garden has been featured in Richard G. Kenworthy, "Published Records of Italianate Gardens in America," Journal of Garden History 10, No. 1 (January-March 1990), pp. 53-54 [includes additional published bibliographic citations].
Collection Restrictions
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
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