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The driveway moves forward

17 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager in Driveway, Restoration

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Written by Curator/Garden Manager Lindsey Kerr

 

(That title doesn’t sound quite right, does it?)

With a dusting of snow and the ground still frozen, work on the Gaiety Hollow driveway has come to a pause. Although it isn’t the most pleasant of sights at the moment, we are looking forward to the finished product as soon as the weather warms.

Most passersby will only notice the construction zone in the front yard, but there has been a lot of work behind the scenes leading to this moment. Dedicated volunteers have spent many hours researching the history of the driveway–yes, driveways have history!–and choosing the best plan for its rehabilitation.

When Gaiety Hollow was constructed in 1932, Edith and Elizabeth drove a Packard. The car was very small by today’s standards and the driveway narrow. A gate, designed by Edith, spanned the drive.

 

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An un-dated early photograph. You can see the gate posts tucked in the hedges at the edge of the driveway. Lord & Schryver Architectural Records, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.

 

Thirty years later, Edith and Elizabeth were driving a Lincoln Continental, a much larger vehicle. (I think my mother would describe this car as a “boat”). The driveway had been widened and the original gate removed.

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Taken the day of Edith’s memorial service in 1984.

 

Today, we are rehabilitating the driveway to reflect as best as possible the original intent. A few of the original slabs of concrete, laid in a Spanish bond pattern, are cracked and need to be re-poured. Those that are in good condition will be relaid in the same place. A strip of concrete to the sides, added at an unknown  date, will be removed and grass put down, per the original design. A new gate–styled after Edith’s original design–will be crafted and put in place.

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The driveway in fall 2016.

 

We would dearly love to take the driveway back to its design in 1932, but considering modern uses, it simply isn’t practical. Modern trucks and vans are much wider and the narrow width of the old driveway would have, undoubtedly, led to vehicles scraping the gate posts. Thus, the width of the driveway will remain the same as Edith and Elizabeth knew it in the 60s, but with a gate that reflects the look of an earlier time.

We are also taking this opportunity to repair the lawn nearest the driveway and, later this season, to begin work on restoring the shrub border along the driveway.

Thanks to our generous donors and volunteers for making these projects possible. Special thanks to Russell Schutte at AC + Co Architecture | Community for his assistance with the project.

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An Exciting Week…and a Garden Party!!

08 Friday May 2015

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, Lord & Schryver, Vintage Photos

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Gaiety Hollow was a busy place this week…both the house and the garden.  George Crandall’s beautifully crafted gate (built from the original L&S design) was installed this morning, symbolic of the huge progress the Conservancy has made in this last year at Gaiety Hollow.

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George Crandall crafted the new gate and David Lichter did all the research turning up many historic photos including these (please excuse the bad “screen shot” images)…here’s a drawing of the gate Elizabeth/Edith did on a table cloth back in the day…

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The house in 1934 with a gate which was the original one…

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and in the garden, the mulch arrived…

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and in the house, the reprints of some of the many original drawings now in the collection of the Knight Library at the University of Oregon arrived and were hung in the living room and dining room…adding a wonderful resonance to the rooms…(and keep in mind here, this is NOT a house museum but it a working space devoted to gardens)

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This was Schryver’s thesis project at the Lowthorpe School in 1923, an imagined garden called Wynndie-Lea…

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and Thursday night we all trekked to Portland for a delightful party honoring the work of Lord and Schryver in an L&S garden of the 1930’s.  The garden has been cared for beautifully for 30 years by Thayer and Jon Willis, though was originally designed for Mary and Gerald Beebe in 1932.  L&S Board member Marilyn Kingery asked the Willises to open their garden so that the many Portland people who have L&S gardens, or garden remnants, could come see, enjoy and get solid information about Lord and Schryver and their work.  Marilyn gave thoughtful and touching remarks about the L&S garden she once enjoyed, and Landscape architect Steven Koch talked about the interest and importance of the design work of the team.  (Koch now owns the Wallace Kay Huntington house near Champoeg…Landscape architect Huntington was mentored by his life long friends Lord and Schryver and worked with them several times)

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But, of course the real star was the beautiful garden with allees, views, focal points and plants of particular interest…this garden has it all…and Steven Koch’s remark about the L&S tendency to “compression” was immediately apparent on entering the house and looking through to the garden and the exceptional crabtree allee…OLD but very small crabtrees, boxwood and Yew hedges, nothing else…

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and the view back toward the house…

crab allee looking toward house

and now you are free to roam the garden…(psst..this brick feature is not a shed…it’s gate to the side yard…)

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View of Mt. Hood

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through the gate to the parterre garden…

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and the espaliered pear…

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By this morning though, back in Salem, our intrepid Board president Bobbie Dolp was hard at work pruning the overgrown laurel hedges on the back alley…with help from Jay Raney…

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and Ann…who I have often photographed quietly working away…

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The Lord and Schryver Conservancy is so VERY grateful for all the hard work and thought and devotion that the many volunteers put into furthering the legacy of Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver and their gardens.  Thank you Thayer and Jon Willis, Marilyn Kingery, Ruth and Don Roberts, David Lichter, Ross Sutherland, Brandy O’Bannon, Bobbie Dolp and Gretchen Carnaby, Valerie McIntosh, George Crandall, Woody Dukes, the Raneys, and many many more.  This is good work.  Come join us.

 

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The New Front Gate!

30 Thursday Apr 2015

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, Lord & Schryver, Uncategorized

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I had a moment alone in the garden this morning…it was blooming…

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and while I was waiting for David and George to arrive with the new gate, I found this well-worn plan for the new sprinkler/drip system on the garage floor…

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But let’s do some gate recap.  Last week I saw the old gate…

old wooden L&S gate

and these (to me) mysterious “new” gate posts…(“how are they going to put a wooden gate on these?,” I thought…)

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But today I found out when David and George arrived with these ingenious and beautifully crafted wooden posts engineered to slip over the metal ones…

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posts in place

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gate looking south

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The gate had to go back in the shop today for some final adjustments and some paint, but you can see how beautiful it will be!!  Amazing skilled volunteers to the rescue.

 

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In the Garden

25 Monday Nov 2013

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The Gaiety Hill garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver,

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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.

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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

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a different look from the summer grape arbor I sat under this past summer…

L&S summer grape arbor

Lord and Schryver were particularly interesting to us because they really had “IT ALL”.  They understood sight lines…

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and here’s an actual L&S photo of the view through the arbor…

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one I took last summer…

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and the way it looked yesterday…

L&S winter 2013 arbor and boy

Of course gardens are all about plants, but Lord and Schryver also understood fences

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gates

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and the all-important relationship between inside and outside that makes their gardens so special…

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