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Saved Landscapes

January 15, 2008
Forgotten Halprin-designed Park Central Square at Crossroads
Springfield, Missouri

In response to proposed major changes, longtime Springfield, Missouri resident, Ruth Kelley ignites discourse for forgotten Halprin-designed park.

October 10, 2006
Spotlight on the Garden: Gerdemann Garden
Yachats, Oregon

Dr. Jim and Janis Gerdemann found the perfect area in the country to retire and create their dream garden: a 3.5-acre piece of property north of Yachats, Oregon, facing the Pacific Ocean and adjacent to the Siuslaw National Forest.

October 10, 2006
Freeway Park: Past, Present, and Future?
Seattle, Washington

Freeway Park, executed by Lawrence Halprin's office under the design direction of Angela Danadjieva, is one of the most compelling treatises on post-War landscape architecture that survives today.

July 1, 2006
Spotlight on the Garden: The Becker Estate
Highland Park, Illinois

Legendary landscape architect Jens Jensen designed the Prairie Style grounds of the Becker Estate (1921-1927) on a breath-taking 20-acre site set high on a clay bluff above Lake Michigan.

June 28, 2005
Gerdemann Garden Saved
Yachats, Oregon

The garden is a celebrated regional treasure of biological diversity with exotic plants, native species, and hybrids developed by Dr. Gerdemann.

August 6, 2004
Capitol Park
Washington, District Of Columbia

In the Southwest Waterfront area of Washington, D.C. lives a community of townhouses and apartment buildings that were designed by Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Dan Kiley as part of the urban renewal of this area in the 1950’s and 60’s.

June 6, 2004
Working Landscapes: Orson Adams House
Harrisburg, Utah

The Orson Adams House, along with its terraced fields, irrigation ditches, and other agrarian features, preserves a 2000-year record of changing land use.

June 6, 2003
Revisiting Robert Royston’s Mitchell Park
Palo Alto, California

J. Pearce Mitchell Park was built in 1957 as a 22-acre community park to serve as a key public facility for a newly planned neighborhood in the City of Palo Alto, California.

January 2, 2003
The Fate of Seneca Park
Rochester, New York

The fate of Seneca Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as one of the three original parks in the Rochester, New York park system, hangs on two legal appeals. A plan to triple the area of the Seneca Park Zoo has been officially adopted.

June 6, 2002
Nature in the City: Seneca Park
Rochester, New York

Conceived as a wild and scenic refuge in a developing urban environment, sections of the original park have been lost, but others survive along the park's beloved Trout Pond.