Saved Landscapes

September 12, 2011
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden on the Road to Restoration
Santa Barbara, California

Since a change in leadership, the organization has worked to ensure preservation of the historic design.

September 20, 2010
La Laguna Playground Under Rehabilitation
San Gabriel, California

La Laguna Playground is enjoying some long over due rehabilitation this year. In 2009, the whimsical 1960s playground created by master concrete artist Benjamin Dominguez was placed on the California Register of Historic Places.

July 22, 2010
Pacific Science Center Designated a Local Historic Landmark
Seattle, Washington

The Pacific Science Center has been designated as a City of Seattle Landmark, making it one of only two Seattle landmarks to be designated under all six designation criteria.

April 8, 2010
La Laguna Playground Threatened by Renovation
San Gabriel, California

In 1965, La Laguna, a playground of life-size, concrete play-sculptures opened to 1,500 eager children.

February 5, 2010
Halprin's Park Central Square added to the National Register
Springfield, Missouri

The Missouri square is the first work by Lawrence Halprin to be added to the National Register of Historic Places.

October 16, 2009
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara, California

One of the first botanic gardens in America to be planted solely with native plants, proposed changes to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s historic core now threaten to irreversibly destroy this design legacy.

September 29, 2009
Orson Adams House Rehabilitated
Harrisburg, Utah

The Bureau of Landmanagement has recently rehabilitated the mid-19th century Mormon pioneer residence, the Orson Adams House, for adaptive re-use. This small sandstone masonry house was built in 1863 for the Orson B. Adams family, in the now abandoned Mormon agricultural settlement of Harrisburg.

April 16, 2009
Documenting Halprin's Charlottesville Mall
Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia (UVA) students and faculty in Architectural History and Landscape Architecture started site documentation of and research on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall in the Fall 2008 semester. 

January 15, 2009
Plans to Redesign Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Grounds Halted
St. Louis, Missouri

The Danforth Foundation, the St. Louis philanthropic organization interested in building a new “world-class” attraction on the grounds of the Dan Kiley-designed landscape at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, has announced that it will step back efforts to fast-track their plans.

November 6, 2008
Marvels of Modernism: Miller Garden
Columbus, Indiana

Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000, the Miller House and Garden exemplify Modernism.