The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Named for Francis W. Pettygrove, one of the early owners and developers of the Portland “townsite,” Pettygrove Park is part of the Portland Open Space Sequence, designed by Lawrence Halprin + Associates, Satoru Nishita, partner-in-charge, in the 1960s. The most park-like space in the sequence, the landscape is composed of earth mounds, expanses of lawn, trees, native stone walls and steps, simple asphalt walks, wooden benches, and original globe lighting.

Designed by Charles K. Savage, owner of the Asticou Inn and designer of the gardens at Thuya Lodge, it was made poissbile through funds provided by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and plants garnered from Beatrix Farrand’s dismantled Reef Point Gardens including two of the oldest specimens in the garden, a weeping hemlock just north of the Main Bridge and an Alberta spruce near the North Bridge. The garden was constructed between 1956 and 1957.

The Urbana Park District was formed in 1907. The first park that was designed and laid out under this new authority was Crystal Lake Park. Measuring just over 90 acres, including nearly 60 sylvan acres known as Busey Woods, this picturesque landscape primarily follows the alignment and contours of the Saline Branch of Crystal Lake – largely the result of a 1906 dredging project that led to the present-day water feature.

Thuya Lodge and Garden in Northeast Harbor, Maine, served as the hilltop summer home of Boston landscape gardener and landscape engineer, Joseph Henry Curtis. The gardens, developed from 1880 to 1928, are nestled within 200 acres of surrounding woodland. Asticou Terraces, a series of steps and resting terraces, which Curtis built up the steep hillside, provide viewing opportunities back to Northeast Harbor.