What's Out There Posts 1000 Sites

After only 18 months in operation, TCLF’s What’s Out There program has posted its 1000th site profile. With content created by nearly 100 of different professionals and students, volunteers and local landscape enthusiasts, the database’s 1000 entries range across all 50 states and cover every style and type in the database.

Launched in October 2009, What’s Out There is the nation’s most comprehensive searchable database of historic designed landscapes. Site Profile #1000 is the Lily Pool, designed by Alfred Caldwell in Chicago in the heart of Lincoln Park. It is one of 25 different sites that will be featured duringWhat’s Out There Weekend Chicagoon June 11 and 12. The What’s Out There Weekend series and TCLF’s university partnerships are programs that stem from What’s Out There, introducing a broad audience to historic designed landscapes all over the country.

What's Out There is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.