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Towers|Golde
designed the Sunken Garden at Hill-Stead, a house museum featuring a
spectacular collection of early 20th century art. The scheme
was based on a newly discovered, horticulturally detailed plan (c.1925)
from the archives of Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959), one of the
country’s first landscape architects.
While there is no record that the original was ever executed, T|G’s plan is faithful to
that design with only a few, carefully researched substitutions with
modern perennial hybrids and some minor, but sensitive adjustments to
the layout, necessary to accommodate the public usage which, as
anticipated, has increased dramatically since restoration.
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