Located in the heart of downtown Tucson, the design includes shallow pools and tree groves, but is now faced with destruction by the city that once commissioned it.
In 1885, Dr. Henry Nehrling, a botanist and ornithologist from the Midwest, purchased 40 acres in Florida, to develop a garden where he could grow tropical plants year round.
A National Historic Landmark landscape and family home of John Jay is deteriorating dramatically with the proliferation of invasive plants and deliberate lack of maintenance.
Heritage Park Plaza in Fort Worth, a seminal work of landscape architecture by Presidential Medal of Arts winner Lawrence Halprin, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) has submitted a nomination of the iconic Bell Labs building and its landscape to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2010 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list.
Washington Park, one of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.’s great “country parks,” was recently threatened by a proposed 80,000-seat stadium that would have obliterated nearly half the park. While the threat has passed, it served as a warning about the fragility of parks, gardens, and open space.
