Object Details
Former owner
Butler, Richard C.
Butler, Gertrude Remmel
Architect
Cromwell, Edwin
Provenance
Little Rock Garden Club
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 additional information.
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General
Richard C. (1910-1999) and Gertrude Remmel Butler's (1910-2007) two-acre garden features extensive plantings of daffodils and the day lilies and Louisiana irises that Mr. Butler hybridized and distributed to others in the Little Rock, Arkansas gardening community. The Butlers designed and worked their garden between 1951 and 2007. The property overlooks the Arkansas River.
Gertrude Remmel Butler was president of the Little Rock chapter of the Garden Club of America from 1956-1958. She won a Zone IX horticultural award in 1981 and a national award in 2005 for her work on the Pulaski County Courthouse rose garden. She was a prominent philanthropist in Little Rock. Richard C. Butler, Sr. was one of the attorneys representing the Little Rock School Board against the suit filed by the local NAACP that went to the Supreme Court as part of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Persons associated with the garden include: Richard Colburn Butler, Sr. (former owners, 1951-2007) and Edwin Cromwell (architect, n.d.).
Place
River Ridge (Little Rock, Arkansas)
United States of America -- Arkansas -- Pulaski County -- Little Rock
Topic
Gardens -- Arkansas -- Little Rock
Former owner
Butler, Richard C.
Butler, Gertrude Remmel
Architect
Cromwell, Edwin
Provenance
Little Rock Garden Club
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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.
Custodial History
The Little Rock Garden Club facilitated the submission of this garden's documentation.
Archival Repository
Archives of American Gardens
Identifier
AAG.GCA, File AR019
Type
Archival materials
Collection Rights
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Collection Restrictions
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Record ID
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