Annual Dinner Invite 2012.pdf

NELDHA's Annual Dinner will again be held at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts on June 15, 2012. Our guest speaker will be Nancy Brennan, Executive Director of the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

A networking reception begins at 5:30 on the patio overlooking the Olmsted designed gardens, followed by an elegant buffet dinner in the living room of the Mansion and lecture by Brennan entitled "How Parks Boost Cities: The GREENway". Limited overnight accommodations are available. Meeting old and new friends, the Silent Auction and an exhibition by NELDHA member and artist Susan Quateman will add to your enjoyment of the evening. Deadline for reservations is June 5, 2012. The response form is included in the Invitation above.

A sunken Italian garden. Marble pavilions inspired by Versailles. Sloping lawns and formal parterres. Pathways, terraces, allees. Breathtaking fountains. The classic landscape combination of elegant stone and moving water through a scene of crisply clipped arborvitae and hedges of ivy. A step into the Elms landscape in  Newport, Rhode Island, is much like a step back into classical Italian Renaissance and French Baroque gardens – with just a touch of Victorian sensibilities to keep the scene uniquely American.  

The Elms, one of the famed Newport mansions owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County, was modeled after the mid-18th century French Chateau d’Asnieres. Completed in 1901, this summer residence was set in a glorious park of majestic trees, including copper and weeping beeches and, of course, elms. With the acquisition of more land in 1907, the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Julius Berwind, began to develop the 7.5-acre landscape with assistance from their building architect Horace Trumbauer, their gardener Bruce Butterton, and French landscape designer Jacques Greber. The gardens were completed sometime between 1914 and 1921.

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NELDHA is seeking a new editor for Perspectives. Perspectives is a professional publication of NELDHA that focuses on landscape, design, history and preservation. It supports NELDHA's mission and serves as a valuable educational and practice resource to its members. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2012.

 Perspectives Job Posting.pdf

Frank Cabot, founder of the Garden Conservancy died peacefully at home in Quebec on Saturday, November 19. 

Visit the Garden Conservancy website to read the New York Times obituary and other information about his life and many accomplishments.