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  • Thursday, December 11, 6:00 pm – Dwelling in Landscape

    Thursday, December 11, 6:00 pm – Dwelling in Landscape

    The New England Landscape Design and History Association (NELDHA) is pleased to announce that it is a co-sponsor of The Friends of Fairsted lecture on December 11, 2014, featuring Daniel Bluestone, Director of the Boston University Preservation Studies Program. His lecture, Dwelling in Landscape, will cover changing practices in residential landscape design. The lecture, at Wheelock College on Hawes Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, begins at 7:00 PM and is preceded by a Reception at 6:00 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public, but a reservation is required. Please RSVP to friendsoffairsted@gmail.com. Seating is limited.

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  • Friday, November 14, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm – Castle Hill Casino Restoration Seminar

    Friday, November 14, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm – Castle Hill Casino Restoration Seminar

    New England Landscape Design and History Association (NELDHA) and The Trustees of Reservations (TTOR) are pleased to collaborate on a Preservation Seminar that focuses on the Casino restoration at the Country Place Era Estate at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The seminar is on November 14, 2014, at the Great House at Castle Hill from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

    Join them for an in depth program in the Great House with TTOR staff and other professionals who will explain the issues, process and decision making involved. TTOR Northeast Region’s Operations Manager Robert Murray will lead a tour of the restored Casino. After lunch, a distinguished panel will answer questions and discuss issues with a particular emphasis on hardscape, ornamentation and adaptive reuse of this incredible space. The panelists include Robert Murray; Lucinda Brockway, TTOR Program Director for Cultural Resources; James Younger, AIA, LEED AP, TTOR Director of Structural Resources and Technology; Susan Hill Dolan, TTOR Curator and Cultural Resources Specialist for the Northeast Region; Robert Levitre of Consigli Construction, and distinguished landscape architect and preservationist, Marion Pressley, FASLA, and past speaker for the Garden Club of the Back Bay.

    In 2014, TTOR continued the restoration of the grounds at Castle Hill, a National Historic Landmark. This year, 99 years after its creation, the crumbling Casino—the epitome of a Country Place Era estate feature for entertainment and leisure—was restored. The casino was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff, in collaboration with the Boston architectural firm Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, 1914 – 1915. Although sited on the fabulous grand allee, it is elegantly hidden within the iconic view from the Great House. The Casino predates the existing Great House designed by David Adler, 1924 – 1928. For this project, TTOR used original documentation and materials wherever possible.

    The seminar is $70 for NELDHA members, TTOR members and current students and $85 for non-members. We are offering an early registration discount of $10 for registrations received before October 14, 2014. The Registration & Refund Deadline is November 8, 2014. Space is limited. Visit www.ttor.org to register.

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  • Self-Guided Walking Tours of the South End, Back Bay, and Prudential Center Gardens/Christian Science Gardens

    Three Garden Club of the Back Bay members, Rita Christensen, Susan Juretschke, and Maureen O’Brien, are part of the New England Landscape Design & History Association (NELDHA) committee creating self guided walking tours of Boston neighborhoods.  All the information may be found at www.neldha.org/walking-tours.   The project was launched in 2010, so people could enjoy Boston’s neighborhood green spaces at their own pace and on their own schedule.  The maps and narratives may be downloaded and printed.

    The first to be completed is Boston’s South End Green Spaces. Originally the South End of Boston was a narrow strip of land called the “Neck”, which connected the Shawmut Peninsula of Boston to the Roxbury mainland. In the mid-nineteenth century the City of Boston filled in the South End to remedy a housing shortage. Street layouts included garden squares reminiscent of London’s garden squares. Individual buildings were designed and constructed by developers who often relied on pattern books for designs, hence the similar designs in groups of buildings.

    Today the 19th century garden squares continue to contribute to the quality of life and vibrancy of the South End. In addition, the South End is one of the largest urban Victorian neighborhoods in the United States. This self-guided walking tour includes a sampling of the historic garden squares along with newer parks, gardens and green spaces.

    The route is approximately 2 miles in length and can be covered at a leisurely pace in 2 hours time.  Back Bay and the Prudential Center Gardens & Christian Science Plaza itineraries are coming soon.

  • Friday, April 25 – New England Landscape Design & History Association Annual Reception

    NELDHA’s Annual Reception and Lecture will take place on Friday, April 25, 2014 at the beautiful MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts. The featured speaker will be Lucinda Brockway, Director for Cultural Resources for the The Trustees of Reservations, where she guides the wonderful restoration of the historic gardens at Castle Hill in Ipswich and Naumkeag in Stockbridge. She was an award-winning landscape designer and preservationist, serving a national clientele for twenty-five years before coming to the trustees.

    Through her firm, Past Designs in Kennebunk, Maine, Lucinda’s work included such well-known projects as Fort Ticonderoga’s Jardin du Roi, Newport’s Bellevue Avenue estates, the Battle Green (Lexington, Massachusetts), Villa Finale in San Antonio ,Texas, the Camden Amphitheatre in Maine and several other projects for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her private residential designs won recognition throughout the country. She specialized in designing period-inspired landscapes and gardens featuring both historic and indigenous plants. She is the author of two books, A Favorite Place of Resort for Strangers and Gardens of the New Republic.

    Times and ticketing information will be available at www.neldha.org.

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  • Thursday, February 28, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Reveries of a Landscape Gardener

    The New England Landscape Design & History Association presents a lecture by landscape designer and historian Leslie Martino on Reveries of a Landscape Gardener: Donald Grant Mitchell (1822 – 1908) and the Path to East Rock Park, New Haven.  The lecture will be held Thursday, February 28 from 3 – 5 at the Fishbowl, Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, and is free and open to the public.

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  • Thursday, January 26, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Designing Paradise

    Thursday, January 26, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Designing Paradise

    The New England Landscape Design & History Association (NELDHA) cordially invites you to its first meeting of 2012, featuring a “Slide Slam” focusing on the theme Designing Paradise.  Share garden and landscape photos – from a recent trip or completed project – with fellow members.  Choose 8 – 10 slides (we still use these?) or PowerPoint visuals of a garden or landscape you would like to share and save to a portable memory stick.  AV equipment will be provided.  The event will take place Thursday, January 26, from 3 – 5 at the Fishbowl, The Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street in Boston.  RSVP to Laurie Pazzano at 781-893-7185, or email her at lpazzano@hotmail.com.  Photo below taken in Magnolia, Massachusetts.