Landslide 2011: The Landscape I Love, Related Landscapes
In 1839 David Barrow purchased the 250-acre Home Place estate from his father Bartholomew. When David married Susan Woolfolk in 1847 the couple renamed and renovated the property, expanding the existing residence into a Gothic Revival-style mansion and adding over 25 acres of gardens. The Barrow’s landscape includes a half-mile long curving drive lined with live oaks that marks the entry to the estate. The gardens, adjacent to a small family cemetery, include a formal parterre garden and boxwood maze. Below the parterre a series of seven formal terraces cascade down a hillside.
In 1891 Portland Mayor William Ladd proposed the layout of a 126-acre neighborhood, Oregon’s first planned community. Built on a rectangular plot of gently-sloping farmland, the design called for diagonal streets which form an X, with a neighborhood park, Ladd’s Circle, at the center. In the middle of each of the four quadrants a smaller diamond-shaped park acts as a roundabout to through traffic.
In 1895 Commissioner Murphy of the newly formed Essex County Park Commission proposed the development of a park in Southern Newark as part of the country’s first county park system. By 1899 the commission had purchased 265 acres in 12 parcels, and soon thereafter acquired the Waverly Fairgrounds horse trotting track. John Charles Olmsted of Olmsted Brothers was hired to create the park plan, which was completed in 1901.
Constructed in 1959, this private house and garden was designed by architect Rozier Dedwylder and landscape architect James C. Rose. The project was developed collaboratively, with strong connections between the interior spaces of the house and exterior garden rooms, and is one of Rose’s few extant landscapes in the Southeastern U.S.