SAH Study Day at The New York Botanical Garden
September 25, 2015 |
This SAH Study Day offers participants a comprehensive, insider tour of The New York Botanical Garden, one of America’s most renowned urban green spaces, including its historic buildings and rare collections. Calvert Vaux created the initial design for the Garden, which was further developed by the Olmsted Brothers and then completed by the landscape engineers and architects Brinley and Holbrook in the early 1920s.
A National Historic Landmark, the Garden operates one of the world’s foremost plant research centers, library, and laboratories, and is known both for its extensive living plant collections and its extraordinary display-garden layouts. Many outstanding landscape and garden architects have built, and continue to build, upon the Garden’s tradition of excellence.
Architecture is another key element of the Garden’s National Historic Landmark status. Three important buildings highlighted on this Study Day include the monumental Beaux Arts-style Library building (Richard W. Gibson, 1896), which houses the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, one of the most comprehensive botanical libraries in the world; the Stone Mill, a New York Landmark; and the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (Lord & Burnham, 1899), the nation's largest Victorian-era glasshouse.
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The New York Botanical Garden |
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Bronx, NY |
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