United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a work sheet.
General:
Outcropping of lichen-covered stone is used as a shallow bird bath. Ferns, lupines, and sedum are planted in the area. A terrace made of cut stone blocks is shown in one photograph.
Person(s) associated with the garden include(s): Mr. and Mrs. John J. O'Brien (former owners).
Related Materials:
Rockledge related holdings consist of 1 folder (2 8 X10 photoprints)
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
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The folder includes worksheets and other information.
Former Title:
Granelder
General:
Cairn House, designed by architect Douglass Fitch, was built of native pink granite on Mt. Desert Island circa 1930. Granite was used for the terrace, walkways and steps, and throughout the garden for planted ledges, walls and benches. Native plants include mosses, ferns, high and low bush blueberries, cranberries, and other shrubs and vines. There is an ornamental and culinary herb and rock garden, lavishly planted ornamental gardens alongside the house that contain perennials, ferns and rhododendrons, and a cutting and kitchen garden planted in beds. The paths are gravel or granite interspersed with moss groundcover.
The first owner, William Elder Marcus, named the property Granelder. The next owners, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Merritt Matheson, added approximately one and one-quarter acres of woodlands and gardens, and called the property Seaforth. Dr. Claude A. Burnett propagated rhododendrons on the property, which he called Crathes. Dr. James and Emily Fuchs named the property Cairn House and had the gardens redesigned by Patrick Chassé (ASLA), who created the annual and perennial rock garden, the cutting, herb and kitchen gardens, and the garden area at the entrance to the house.
Persons associated with the garden include Patrick Chassé (landscape architect, 1988 to present); Douglass Fitch (architect, 1928-1930); William Elder Marcus (former owner, 1928-1930s); Hugh Merritt Matheson (former owner, 1935-1960s); Claude A. Burnett (1960s-1983); Eric E. Soderholtz (potter, 1867-1959); Elisabeth Curran (gardener, 2000), Dan DeLong (gardener, 2004), Mary Woodfin (gardener, 2004), and Annie Schwartz (2005).
Related Materials:
Cairn House related holdings consist of 1 folders (19 35 mm. slides (photographs))
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets.
General:
Broad flower beds of perennials and annuals bring color and romance to the ocean side location of Cliff Garden, a seven-acre property atop an 80-foot drop to the Atlantic Ocean. The flower beds surround an ovoid lawn that features an antique marble table from India. The garden is entered from the circular driveway by crossing a wooden bridge and going through an Asian-inspired pergola. In addition to the main flower garden there is a cutting garden next to a garage, grass walks around the house leading to the cliff that are bordered with beds of shrubs and flowering shrubs, woodlands, and naturalized plantings in the center of the driveway in front of the house.
The garden was established in 2003 with the assistance of landscape architect Patrick Chassé (ASLA). Hardscaping includes stone stairs leading down from the house to the garden, benches, and large native boulders amidst the flower beds. An electrified deer fence protects the garden.
Persons associated with the garden include Dennis Bracale of Gardens by Design (landscape designer, 2004-2009); Patrick Chassé, ASLA (landscape designer, 2003); Jeff Gammelin of Freshwater Stone (stone mason, 2002).
Related Materials:
Cliff Garden related holdings consist of 1 folders (19 35 mm. slides (photographs))
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
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The folder includes a worksheet, slide script, brochures, and copies of articles.
General:
A 1921 trip to China and a tour of Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and the Philippines inspired Abby and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to create the garden at Eyrie on the western hill of Seal Harbor. Beatrix Farrand, a fellow Mount Desert Island resident, was hired to design it. Lavish flower gardens and Western influences coexist with Eastern material objects. The garden is enclosed by a rose-colored serpentine wall capped with yellow tiles salvaged from a demolished section of wall around China's Forbidden City. The Spirit Path is lined with Korean tomb "procession" figures. The use of native shrubs and ground covers soften the stone sculptures. A lawn is the center of the sunken garden.
Persons associated with the garden and property include: Abby Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (former owners, ca. 1928-1948); Beatrix Jones Farrand (landscape architect); and Robert W. Patterson (landscape architect).
Related Materials:
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (6 glass lantern slides+, 55 35mm slides)
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, site plans, a plant list, a photocopied article, and additional information about the garden.
General:
Treetops is situated on Mt. Desert Island, near Acadia National Park. Although the house dates to 1895, the 2.5 acre garden included in this documentation was developed primarily between 1993 and 2006, when the property was sold. Concentric circles around the "cottage" exemplified the garden's multiple personalities. An outer perimeter included planted woodland, century-old rockwork, 10-foot hemlock hedges, groomed moss, wildflowers, lawns, and natural granite outcroppings. From here one moved into a shrubbery of old rhododendrons, mature Rosa rugosa, clethra, hydrangeas, and flowers shaded by silver birches and stately spruces. Then came grass, granite, and pine-needle paths leading into a more intimate circle of herbaceous borders, and a sunken garden, a white garden, and a container garden ending in a colorful cutting garden. Closer to the house were rose beds, perennials, shrubs, and ferns, while a wraparound porch with ocean views was punctuated by a variety of containers and topiaries. Of special note, the sunken garden, with its "Hearts of Stone" parterre, was installed on the site of a ballroom torn down in the 1930s, and was designed as a formal checkerboard using squares of pink granite, pea gravel, and Nepeta faassenii, along with 'Chianti', a large bush rose with black-magenta blossoms.
Persons associated with the garden include Jane Foster (former owner, 1993-2006); Fitzgerald Hudson (former owner, 1983-1993); William Adams Brown (former owner, 1895-1930s); Patrick Chassé (landscape architect, 1988); and Deborah Cough (gardener, 1992 to date).
Related Materials:
Treetops related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides (photographs))
Collection Restrictions:
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock -- Seal Harbor
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets.
General:
East Point is a ten-acre property with a large granite and shingle style house built in 1909 on a granite cliff that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. It was one of the original 'great summer cottages' on Mt. Desert Island. The property slopes, with about eight acres of woodlands with an understory mosses and ferns, and another two acres facing the oceanfront with mature shrubs and vines as foundation plantings, a terrace full of container plantings, and a large informal flower garden. An outbuilding, also built in 1909, was the original laundry and domestic dormitory for East Point, and there is a small greenhouse behind the three-car garage. The steps to the garden, ledges and walls were built of native granite with some decorative set-in stone work while the floor of the patio is brick set in a herringbone pattern. Nestled into the terrace there is a glass-enclosed tea house used as a summerhouse that overlooks the ocean.
Persons associated with the garden include Senator and Mrs. Marcus Hanna (former owners, 1909); Dr. McAllister (former owner); Mary and Chauncey McCormick (former owners, 1930); Mr. and Mrs. C. Deering McCormick (former owners, circa 1950-2013); Duncan Chandler (designer/architect, 1909); Pearl Grindel (head gardener, 1930-1950); Steve Grindel (gardener, 1950-1990); Ken and Deborah Miller and staff (gardeners, 1990-2013).
Related Materials:
East Point related holdings consist of 1 folder (25 digital images)
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Glengariff (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. Ernest B. Dane's extensive estate was among the first in Seal Harbor where a garden was planted. Originally it belonged to Mrs. George Cooksey who was responsible for the earliest development of this resort. This romantic ravine, leading down the cliffs high above the sea, was planted with every possible variety of fern which will endure the northern Maine climate.
Historic plate number: "41."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert], Mrs. Ernest B. Dane, Main Garden."
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Glengariff (Seal Harbor, Maine)
Maine -- Seal Harbor
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. Ernest B. Dane's extensive estate was among the first in Seal Harbor where a garden was planted. Originally it belonged to Mrs. George Cooksey who was responsible for the earliest development of this resort. This romantic ravine, leading down the cliffs high above the sea, was planted with every possible variety of fern which will endure the northern Maine climate.
Historic plate number: "42."
Historic plate caption: "Mount Desert, Mrs. Ernest B. Dane, Formal Garden."
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Glengariff (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. Ernest B. Dane's extensive estate was among the first in Seal Harbor where a garden was planted. Originally it belonged to Mrs. George Cooksey who was responsible for the earliest development of this resort. This romantic ravine, leading down the cliffs high above the sea, was planted with every possible variety of fern which will endure the northern Maine climate. No 35 mm slide.
Historic plate number: "43."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert]."
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Glengariff (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. Ernest B. Dane's extensive estate was among the first in Seal Harbor where a garden was planted. Originally it belonged to Mrs. George Cooksey who was responsible for the earliest development of this resort. This romantic ravine, leading down the cliffs high above the sea, was planted with every possible variety of fern which will endure the northern Maine climate.
Historic plate number: "40."
Historic plate caption: "Mount Desert, Mrs. Ernest B. Dane, Fern Ravine."
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Clothier Garden (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. Morris Clothier's garden path winds its way along an almost vertical bank above ocean cliffs. These cliffs are were with spray in every winter storm and sometimes in summer, but the owner had succeeded in using shrubs and flowers which thrive in such a situation.
Historic plate number: "37."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert], [label torn off]is Clothier."
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Clothier Garden (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. Morris Clothier's garden path winds its way along an almost vertical bank above ocean cliffs. These cliffs are were with spray in every winter storm and sometimes in summer, but the owner had succeeded in using shrubs and flowers which thrive in such a situation.
Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
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1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Bodman Garden (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Historic plate number: "39."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert], Mrs. Edward C. Bodman, Seal Harbor."
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., built the garden on the western hill of Seal Harbor. The Chinese entrance gate, through an evergreen grove along paths of pine needles, is set in a wall of tiles which were brought from Peking, where they were secured from a ruined part of the city wall then under repairs.
Historic plate number: "45."
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Collection Rights:
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
The stone sculptures are Korean soldiers and scholars.
Historic plate number: "46."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert], Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Soldiers & Scholars (antique Chinese)."
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Collection Rights:
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
The Bottle Gate is sometimes called the Key Hole Gate.
Historic plate number: "47."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert]. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Bottle Gate."
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
This garden space is dominated by a Chinese Buddhistic Shrine of the 6th century (unfortunately we can't see this in the slide) and opposite it spreads out the main flower garden where a spacious level expanse of annuals is bordered by a slightly higher terrace walk of perennials. This striking mass of color is accented by the spruce trees in the background, which were left standing when the area for the garden was cut out of dense forest and swamp on the hilltop in 1927.
Historic plate number: "50."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert], Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. End of Garden."
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Collection Rights:
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United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Date:
[1930?]
General:
No glass lantern slide.
Collection Restrictions:
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