Object Details
Landscape architect
Little & Browne, Architect
Olmsted Brothers
Creator
Brandegee Place
Landscape architect
Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933
Creator
Sprague, Charles F.
Browne, Herbert W. C. (Architect)
Landscape architect
Eliot, Charles
Collection Creator
McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948
American Rose Society
Collection Citation
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, J. Horace McFarland Company Collection.
sova.aag.mcf_ref9183
General note
See AAG Image # MA044116 for black and white print version of this image. (Glass lantern slide view is reversed.)
Charles Sprague was a lawyer but interested in politics and owner of the elaborate house and gardens of Faulkner Farms. The twenty acre property which once was owned by Charles Faulkner, named the farm after him. In 1893, the Spragues retained architect Herbert Brown of the Boston firm, Little, Brown and Moore. Sprague also asked Fredrick Law Olmsted's son John to site the house and driveway. The relationship between the client, architect and landscape architect were difficult.
In 1895, Charles Eliot of the Olmsted office was in charge of the Faulkner Farm job. Sprague was looking for a formally planted area with the preservation of agricultural lowland. Dissatisfied with the Olmsted firm, they had met Charles A. Pratt. Platt designed an Italian garden and a series of terraces to the farmland below. At the north and south are terraces that lead into a formal garden with brick walls, pergola and loggias. There are also ornamental wellheads, sculptures and topiary in terra cotta planters.
Place
United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Norfolk County -- Brookline
Topic
Garden borders
Lawns
Irises (Plants)
Wisteria
Tables
Walls (building)
Vines
Trellises
Sculpture
Gates
Finials
Benches
Chairs
Outdoor furniture
Landscape architect
Little & Browne, Architect
Olmsted Brothers
Creator
Brandegee Place
Landscape architect
Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933
Creator
Sprague, Charles F.
Browne, Herbert W. C. (Architect)
Landscape architect
Eliot, Charles
See more items in
J. Horace McFarland Company collection
J. Horace McFarland Company collection / Series 1: Garden Images / United States / Massachusetts / MA044: Brookline -- Faulkner Farm
Extent
1 Slides (photographs) (glass lantern, col., 3 x 5 in.)
Date
05/28/1929
Archival Repository
Archives of American Gardens
Identifier
AAG.MCF, Item MA044117
Type
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Collection Rights
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Collection Restrictions
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Record ID
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