This just in from Bobbie Dolp…a vintage shot of the allee (with the beautiful tree) in the snow at Gaiety Hollow…
SNOW II
09 Monday Dec 2013
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SNOW?
09 Monday Dec 2013
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The forecast is for snow tomorrow…!! Here’s another vintage photo of ANOTHER Lord and Schryver garden…the scroll garden at Deepwood, just down the block from Gaiety Hollow…
The Garden Bench
06 Friday Dec 2013
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Gretchen reminded me that the vintage image of the garden from the house needed to be “flipped”, and when I made that correction I got looking at the image…here is a larger version…
and here’s that same view from the second floor of the house this past year…
and the garden seat this summer…
and again this fall…
and here are Irene and Jon using this lovely spot as a “photo op”…
and I suspect this isn’t the first time. Wouldn’t it be fun to find some other photos in this same spot?
The House
01 Sunday Dec 2013
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Here’s a vintage view of the front of the Lord and Schryver house…
designed for Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver by the architect Clarence Smith, with whom they worked extensively in Salem. Built in 1930 with the garden designed and installed by L&S by 1932 to embody all of their principles of house and garden, inside/outside/ flowers/greenery, “informal formality”…the garden survives today because of the long stewardship of the Strand family who purchased the house in the mid 1980’s, selling the property to the Kingery family this summer. The Kingery “kids” grew up in an L&S garden in Portland
and generously have purchased the house and garden, giving the L&S Conservancy five years to raise the money to purchase the garden for future generations to enjoy and study (this MIGHT be where you got out your check book to make a donation?… to raise the funds and repay the Kingerys’ investment in garden history…?)
When the Strands moved out this year, some of us were allowed to do a walk-through of the rooms and take a few photos. The house is small in scale by today’s standards, but is totally oriented to the garden and garden views…take a look…(clicking on any individual photo will enlarge it for you)
and check these beautiful tiles from the master bedroom fireplace surround…
Once the garden and house were habitable, L&S lived and gardened here all of their days…for Elizabeth Lord (left below) until 1976, for Edith Schryver until 1984.
Congratulations to US!!!
27 Wednesday Nov 2013
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"Documenting the Cultural Landscapes of Women", gardens, HALS, HALS 2013 Challenge Winner, Lord & Schryver, women landscape architects
The Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) is a federal program created to document historic landscapes in the U.S. (administered through the National Park Service). In 2013 HALS ran a challenge: “Documenting the Cultural Landscape of Women”…and it was announced November 16, 2013, that Gaiety Hollow won first place!!!! There’s a cash prize which hopefully can be put toward the purchase of the garden…don’t forget, we’re still raising money! Help preserve this treasure right in our own town!
If you want to volunteer to help in the garden on Fridays (roughly from 9-12) contact Bobbie Dolp at bobbie.dolp@gmail.com. Weeding is underway…(weeding is almost ALWAYS underway, I’ve noticed!) but the schedule may vary during the holidays.
In the Garden
25 Monday Nov 2013
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The Gaiety Hill garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver,
here in Salem, Oregon, is temporarily safe! A generous donation has given the Lord and Schryver Conservancy five years to raise the money for the purchase of the property. As part of the ongoing fund-raising project this blog will give you news of the garden and…ALWAYS…images both current and historic.
For the historic narrative see the Lord and Schryver Conservancy website. Here on the Gaiety Hollow blog, you’ll find pictures of the house and garden and images of progress in the garden restoration and the on-going support efforts.
So let’s start with yesterday, a late and sunny November day…not ANY garden’s Best moment…but this garden looks beautiful any season. The grapes have been trimmed and the arbor tidied
a different look from the summer grape arbor I sat under this past summer…
Lord and Schryver were particularly interesting to us because they really had “IT ALL”. They understood sight lines…
and here’s an actual L&S photo of the view through the arbor…
one I took last summer…
and the way it looked yesterday…
Of course gardens are all about plants, but Lord and Schryver also understood fences
gates
and the all-important relationship between inside and outside that makes their gardens so special…
Lord & Schryver Conservancy blog 