Saved Landscapes

February 5, 2012
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.

December 1, 2009
San Francisco Parks Committee Supports Golf Course at Sharp Park
Pacifica, California

San Francisco Park, Rec, and Open Space Advisory Committee Voted to Support 18-Hole Golf Course at Sharp Park.

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.

July 10, 2009
Sharp Park Golf Course Threatened with Closure
Pacifica, California

Designed by the legendary golf course architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie, Sharp Park Golf Course faces potential closure due to pressure from environmental activists and San Francisco city officials.

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 Kilye-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.

October 15, 2008
Marvels of Modernism: Boston City Hall Plaza
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston City Hall Plaza sits upon ground that has undergone many transformations since our country’s colonial era.

October 10, 2008
Jefferson National Expansion: Kiley's Iconic Memorial Landscape at Risk!
St. Louis, Missouri

Designed by two of the 20th-century’s most influential designers: architect Eero Saarinen and landscape architect Dan Kiley, this National Historic Landmark designated landscape is now threatened by development.

July 15, 2008
Charlottesville Mall At-risk
Charlottesville, Virginia

The Charlottesville Virginia Downtown Mall, designed by Lawrence Halprin & Associates in the mid 1970s, is one of the most successful pedestrian malls of its era in the United States.