Object Details
Collection Creator
Garden Club of America
Collection Citation
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Scope and Contents
26 35mm slides and 1 folder. The folder includes a brochure created by the Tacoma Garden Club, a copy of a sketch of a proposed totem pole for garden designed by Paul N. Luvera, Sr., and a small booklet titled, "Outline of Native Garden PT. Defiance Park" by Tacoma Garden Club.
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Point Defiance Park, part of
General
Tacoma Garden Club developed the Northwest Native Garden as a civic and educational project in 1963. The garden was a finalist for the 1966 Founders Fund Award. Members of the Tacoma Garden Club have done planting and weeding and financed improvements to the garden. The garden was established with a variety of plant life in the Pacific Northwest featuring seven designated habitat areas: Meadow, Coastal Forest, High Apline and Scree, Sub-apline, Moisture and Bog, Eastern Cascade, and San Juan. The main feature of the garden is a cascading waterfall and pond designed by Ray Prentice.
Persons associated with the garden include: Tacoma Garden Club (1963), Metropolitan Park Department (owner), Ray Prentice (designer of waterfall and pond), E.H. Lohbrunner (landscape designer), Fischer? (landscape designer), Paul N. Luvera, Sr. (toem pole carver).
Place
United States of America -- Washington -- Pierce County -- Tacoma
Topic
Gardens -- Washington (State) -- Tacoma
Provenance
Garden documentation prepared by Mrs. Joseph L. Carman, III of Tacoma, Washington.
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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 WA018
Type
Archival materials
Collection Rights
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Collection Restrictions
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Record ID
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