United States of America -- Ohio -- Montgomery County -- Dayton
Scope and Contents:
1 4X5 in. lantern slide, 6 35mm slides and 1 file folder. File folder includes photocopies of articles and a copy of a letter related to Sam Zehrung.
General:
Described in "The Garden Locator of the Garden Club of America" in 1953 as an English period house with formal and informal gardens. It was owned by Mrs. Frederick Rike, a member of the Garden Club of Dayton and tended by eight gardeners. The garden included a formal rose garden, terraces, walls, pools, fountains as well as a half acre vegetable garden was locate off to the side of the stone house.
Persons associated with the garden include: Mrs. Frederick Rike (former owner); Samuel D. Zehrung (landscape architect).
Related Materials:
Lantern slides of High Acres are located in the Garden Club of Dayton Records at the Wright State University Archives along with an oral history with SAmuel Zehrung about the great gardens of Dayton.
Collection Restrictions:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
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.
