Elm Bank Horticulture Center
| Elm Bank | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
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 Statues and an estate in the park area |
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| location | Wellesley , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 16 '34 " N , 71 ° 18' 9" W | ||
| surface | 182 acres (73.7 ha ) | ||
| Built | 1876 | ||
| architect |
Carrère and Hastings Olmsted Brothers |
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| NRHP number | [1] 86003565 | ||
| The NRHP added | July 10, 1987 | ||
The Elm Bank Horticulture Center is a 70-hectare garden at the address 900 Washington Street in Wellesley in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . The garden is the seat of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and offers generous open spaces and lawns, several streams and ponds, and various demarcated gardens.
history
The area got its name Elm Bank in 1740, when Colonel John Jones bought the property and along the banks of the Charles River elm ( English Elm ) planted. The land later belonged to the Loring , Broad, and Otis families until it was sold to Benjamin Pierce Cheney in 1874 for US $ 10,000 . He had founded a delivery company that later became American Express . When Cheney died in 1895, he left the 200 acres (80 hectares ) property to his eldest daughter Alice , to whom it was given in 1905. In 1907 she and her husband Dr. William Hewson Baltzell found the architecture firm Carrère and Hastings to build a mansion in the style of the Colonial Revival on the site. At the same time, they commissioned the then most famous landscape architects, the Olmsted Brothers, with the landscaping of the entire area, the creation of new gardens and the improvement of the existing facilities.
Maintenance program
The entire site was listed under the name Elm Bank on July 10, 1987 on the National Register of Historic Places and is now owned by the state of Massachusetts. In April 1996, the property was leased to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society , which has its headquarters there.
Since 2010, visitors have to pay an entrance fee for the visit. The income will be used for the maintenance of the gardens and to finance the organization and various special events.
particularities
The gardens at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center include:
- Weezie's Garden for Children
In this garden area, visitors have the opportunity to sow and water plants themselves or to interact in various ways with the elements of the garden. School classes are taught here in every season (with the exception of winter).
- New England Trial Garden
This garden was created in a joint effort by the University of Massachusetts , the Massachusetts Flower Growers' Association, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society . Companies from all over the world donate annual plants , which are available for both amateur and professional gardeners to view. In the garden, previously unpublished varieties are also tested, which are to take part in the All America Selections competition. The previous winners can also be seen, as well as hundreds of cultivars that have been submitted for review by commercial growers.
- Italianate Garden
The 1926 restoration of this facility was based on the original plans from the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site . The archive also contained a numbered list of plants and, in some cases, purchase receipts for the trees and flowers originally planted there.
- Show gardens and tree nurseries
The Noanett Garden Club , the New England - local chapter of the Herb Society of America and the American Rhododendron Society operate joint show gardens on the Elm Bank -Gelände.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.
- ↑ a b History of Elm Bank. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, accessed August 19, 2012 .
- ↑ BBROWN: Mass Hort to charge $ 5 to view Elm Bank gardens. In: The Swellesley Report. June 3, 2010, accessed August 19, 2012 .
- ^ Gardens at Elm Bank. (No longer available online.) Massachusetts Horticultural Society, archived from the original August 17, 2012 ; accessed on August 19, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
