'Weld,' Larz Anderson house,151 Newton Street,Brookline,Massachusetts
'Weld,' Larz Anderson house, 151 Newton Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Italian Garden, view from cupid fountain to terrace
Title: ['Weld,' Larz Anderson house, 151 Newton Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Italian Garden, view from cupid fountain to terrace]
Creator(s): Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
Related Names:
Hewitt, Mattie Edwards, 1869-1956 , photographer
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1914]
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Little & Browne changes to existing house, from 1899. Landscape Italian Garden Charles Adams Platt, planted and built, late 1899 or 1900-1901. Associated Name: Isabel Perkins (Mrs. Larz) Anderson. Other: Garden identified as the 'Formal Garden' on 1903 plan by Little & Browne of Weld, Layout of Grounds & Buildings. See Larz Anderson Park by Ivan P. Ide, Arcadia, 2004, p. 4. Today: Ruins of the garden walls and terrace extant in the Larz Anderson Park.
On slide (handwritten): 'A' and 'Anderson, Larz.' Also, gold star sticker.
Photographed when Frances Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwards Hewitt worked together.
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 31.
Subjects:
Gardens--Massachusetts--Brookline--1910-1920.
Fountains--Massachusetts--Brookline--1910-1920.
Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2008678481/
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