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    Default [PHOTOS] Gardens of the Gilded Age

    Gardens of the Gilded Age

    Source: http://fiveminutehistory.com/gardens-of-the-gilded-age/

    Frances “Fannie” Benjamin Johnston, a pioneering female photographer from Grafton, West Virginia, was given her first camera by George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company.

    After a period of training with Thomas Smillie, director of photography at the Smithsonian, she toured Europe, learning from other prominent photographers to further her craft.

    In 1894, she opened her own studio in Washington D.C. and was commissioned by magazines to take celebrity portraits, including Mark Twain, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington and even Alice Roosevelt’s wedding.

    Well connected among the elites of society, from the late 1800s through 1935, she photographed the gardens of the rich and famous.

    To the wealthy and class-conscious, gardens signified status and refinement in an ever growing industrialized America.

    Deemed “the finest existing on the subject”, many of her meticulously composed images were hand tinted and were meant to educate the masses on how to beautify their yards.

    What must be the sensations of a visiting Martian, when after thrilling to the matchless beauty of the New York skyline… [he sees] the squalor and sordidness of many of our city districts…? (1922). - Francis Benjamin Johnston

    Francis Benjamin Johnston played a significant role in defining American landscape design.

    Here are 40 glorious gardens from the Gilded Age.


    Kenarden Lodge, John Stewart Kennedy house, Shore Path, Bar Harbor, Maine. Italian Garden, view from pergola


    William Albert Smoot, Jr., house, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Rose garden


    Arnold Schlaet house, Campo Point, Saugatuck, Connecticut. Terrace


    Mrs. Francis Lemoine Loring house, 700 South San Rafael Avenue, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, California. Terrace balustrade


    ‘Las Tejas,’ Oakleigh Thorne house, 170 Picacho Road, Montecito, California. View from swimming pool pavilion to house


    ‘Senuelo,’ Edward Ditmars Wetmore house, 1050 Channel Drive, Montecito, California. Path to rose garden


    ‘Villa Rose,’ Joseph Donahoe Grant house, 2260 Redington Road, Hillsborough, California. Garden wall


    ‘Uplands,’ Charles Templeton Crocker house, 400 Uplands Drive, Hillsborough, California. View to porte cochère terrace with herbaceous border


    ‘Inellan,’ Walter Douglas house, Channel Drive, Montecito, California. Pergola at the Pacific Ocean


    Michael Cochrane Armour house, 962 Linda Vista Avenue, Pasadena, California. Native plant garden pathway


    ‘Laurelton Hall’, Louis Tiffany Foundation, Laurel Hollow, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Octagonal garden


    ‘The Causeway,’ James Parmelee house, 3100 Macomb Street, Washington, D.C. Fountain


    ‘Gray Gardens,’ Robert Carmer Hill house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. Sun-room overlooking walled garden


    ‘Il Paradiso,’ Mrs. Dudley Peter Allen house, 1188 Hillcrest Avenue, Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California. Lower garden stairs


    ‘Waveny,’ Lewis Henry Lapham house, 677 South Avenue, New Caanan, Connecticut. View from house terrace


    ‘Beechgate,’ Robert Carmer Hill house, Woodland Avenue, Englewood, New Jersey. View from flower garden to house


    ‘Thornedale,’ Oakleigh Thorne house, Millbrook, New York. Lawn to pond


    ‘Drumthwacket,’ Moses Taylor Pyne house, 354 Stockton Road, Princeton, New Jersey. Balustrade


    ‘Rookwood,’ Evelyn Russell Sturgis house, Gloucester Road, Manchester, Massachusetts. View to Atlantic Ocean


    ‘The Breakers,’ Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. Loggia parterre

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    ‘The Breakers,’ Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. View of terrace and loggia


    ‘Weld,’ Larz Anderson house, 151 Newton Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Temple in water garden


    ‘Thornedale,’ Oakleigh Thorne house, Millbrook, New York. Pond at house entrance


    Arnold Schlaet house, Campo Point, Saugatuck, Connecticut. View from house to sunken garden


    ‘Beechwood,’ Frank Arthur Vanderlip house, Scarborough, New York. Pergola


    ‘Boxley,’ Frederick Winslow Taylor house, Northwest corner of Seminole Avenue and St. Martin’s Lane, Chestnut Hill, Penn. Boxwood path


    ‘Willowmere,’ Rear Admiral Aaron Ward house, 435 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn Harbor, New York Iris beds


    ‘Gardenside,’ Frederick Augustus Snow house, Ox Pasture Road, Southampton, New York. View north to flower garden


    ‘Darena,’ George Barton French house, Southampton, New York. Flower garden


    ‘Près Choisis,’ Albert Herter house, Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York. Blue and white garden terrace


    ‘Killenworth,’ George Dupont Pratt house, Glen Cove, New York. Terrace steps


    C’laraben Court,’ Benjamin Stern house, Roslyn Harbor, New York. View from drive


    Dr. Frederick Kellogg Hollister house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. Delphiniums


    ‘Westlawn,’ Edward Tiffany Dyer house, Great Plains Road, Southampton, New York. Rose arbor and statue


    Lathrop Colgate house, Bedford Village, New York. Trellis


    ‘The Fens,’ Lorenzo Easton Woodhouse house, Huntting Lane, East Hampton, New York. Bench


    ‘Thornedale,’ Oakleigh Thorne house, Millbrook, New York. Lawn terrace and pond


    ‘Armsea Hall,’ Charles Frederick Hoffman Jr. house, Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island. Sundial


    Mrs. Francis Lemoine Loring house, 700 South San Rafael Avenue, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, California. Flower garden


    ‘Mariemont’, Thomas Josephus Emery house, 386 Greenwood Ave., Middletown, Rhode Island. View from summer house

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    All the flower gardens are très gorgeous.

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