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At-Risk Landscapes

October 15, 2008
Marvels of Modernism: Peavey Plaza
Minneapolis, Minnesota

During the successful urban renewal projects of the 1960s, the city of Minneapolis hired landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg to design Peavey Plaza to connect with Nicollet Mall, the city’s new downtown pedestrian mall.

October 15, 2008
Marvels of Modernism: Heritage Plaza
Fort Worth, Texas

Texas is gifted with many celebrated public landscapes from the modern era. However, Heritage Plaza is the state’s only significant design by Presidential Medal of Arts recipient Lawrence Halprin, FASLA.

September 15, 2008
The Cadbury Factory: A Pivotal Modern Landscape by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

The Cadbury Factory at Moreton, designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe in 1952, was developed within the United Kingdom’s post-war reconstruction era. As a chocolate and biscuit (cookie) factory, it was conceived as a means of moving from wartime to peacetime production in a modernist idiom-a rarity in its day.

August 6, 2008
Fulton Mall, Fresno, CA
Fresno, California

Designed by Garrett Eckbo (completed 1964), the Mall was originally the centerpiece of an effort to maintain downtown Fresno as the region’s retail center. Now, it's threatened as the city seeks to change the face of downtown.

June 1, 2008
H. Nehrling's Tropical Garden and Arboretum
Naples, Florida

Henry Nehrling's legendary tropical botanical garden is threatened by the expanding Naples Zoo. A recently approved master plan calls for upgrades and expansion, but does little to protect Nehrling's original gardens.

August 14, 2007
Bell Labs: Birthplace of the Transistor and Cell Phone at Risk
Holmdel, New Jersey

The massive Bell Laboratories complex (1959 to 1962, expanded 1966 and 1985), situated on 472 acres in Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey, is threatened by new development that may destroy or significantly damage the massive historic building and its historic designed landscape.

June 7, 2007
Pinehurst Village: Spotlight on Olmsted and Manning’s Vision
Pinehurst, North Carolina

North Carolina’s Pinehurst National Historic Landmark District, including the Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and Warren H. Manning landscape, are being threatened by a proposed roundabout.

January 15, 2007
A Threatened Olmsted Legacy in Seattle
Seattle, Washington

Planned freeway construction is once again threatening one of Seattle's most culturally important landscapes. The Arboretum that is not only a civic treasure, but an astounding horticultural resource for the entire region.

October 10, 2006
Spotlight on the Garden: New Orleans Botanical Garden
New Orleans, Louisiana

The New Orleans Botanical Garden was originally planned and planted during the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration [WPA] project.

October 10, 2006
Spotlight on the Garden: Margaret Thomas' Garden
Herndon, Virginia

Margaret Thomas and her husband George moved onto their Herndon, VA, property in 1963. Margaret started this iris garden with flowers donated by her neighbors.