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Rain in Winston on Tuesday evening, so the blog was forced to watch a little baseball (although not the Phillies-Cubs game it wanted to see) and review its cache of summer photographs. Today's photograph is of Susan's favorite place in Winston, not counting her kitchen. It's a little pool in the formal gardens of the Reynolda estate adjacent to the Wake Forest campus. This area of the Reynolda estate is known formally as the Greenhouse Gardens. It was designed by Thomas Warren Sears, the famous Harvard-educated landscape architect based in Philadelphia, and the first plantings are circa 1917. This was apparently one of Sears' first major projects, and he was deservedly very pleased with the outcome. I learned from the very well-organized Reynolda Gardens website that the formal gardens were always intended to be open to the public, as they are today under the stewardship of Wake Forest University. The historic aerial photograph was taken by Mr. Sears himself in 1920. The formal gardens are at the lower left in this photo, so the street that runs from left to right must be today's Reynolda Road. The Smithsonian website also features a historic photograph of Reynolda House. It turns out that the Smithsonian owns the plans for Reynolda Gardens! Pennsylvania readers of this blog have seen Sears' work at Pennsbury in Bucks County and on the campus of Swarthmore College...
Rain in Winston on Tuesday evening, so the blog was forced to watch a little baseball (although not the Phillies-Cubs game it wanted to see) and review its cache of summer photographs. Today's photograph is of Susan's favorite place in Winston, not counting her kitchen. It's a little pool in the formal gardens of the Reynolda estate adjacent to the Wake Forest campus. This area of the Reynolda estate is known formally as the Greenhouse Gardens. It was designed by Thomas Warren Sears, the famous Harvard-educated landscape architect based in Philadelphia, and the first plantings are circa 1917. This was apparently one of Sears' first major projects, and he was deservedly very pleased with the outcome. I learned from the very well-organized Reynolda Gardens website that the formal gardens were always intended to be open to the public, as they are today under the stewardship of Wake Forest University. The historic aerial photograph was taken by Mr. Sears himself in 1920. The formal gardens are at the lower left in this photo, so the street that runs from left to right must be today's Reynolda Road. The Smithsonian website also features a historic photograph of Reynolda House. It turns out that the Smithsonian owns the plans for Reynolda Gardens! Pennsylvania readers of this blog have seen Sears' work at Pennsbury in Bucks County and on the campus of Swarthmore College...
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