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  • Collection: Blithewood Garden

Detail of elevation blueprint for the Blithewood Garden

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Design for formal garden, Residence of Andrew Zabriskie, Esq., Barrytown-on-Hudson, NY

Detail of elevation blueprint for the Blithewood Garden

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Design for formal garden, Residence of Andrew Zabriskie, Esq., Barrytown-on-Hudson, NY

Exterior of Donaldson's Blithewood

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This engraving served as the frontispiece for Andrew Jackson Downing’s Treatise on Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture. This shows the exterior of Donaldson’s Blithewood. The house faced the river and featured a broad, trellised porch that…

Partial view of structure known as Zabriskie's Drill Hall

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This photograph was donated to Bard College by J. R. Delafield. A handwritten inscription, signed J. R. Delafield, dates the photograph[h to 1888, and identifies it as ‘the Coach House on the estate of John Bard,’ though the structure dates to…

Photograph of Blithewood Garden from Beautiful Gardens in America, by Louise Shelton

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Blithewood Garden image, ca. 1915. From : Beautiful Gardens in America, by Louise Shelton. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1916, Plate 49.

Seclusion

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The sculpture was created as part of Bassler's senior project at Bard College, and at the time replaced an earlier floral fountain that had fallen into disrepair. "Seclusion" was removed from Blithewood during its restoration in the early 1990s. She…

The Bard College Newletter, Perspectives, Vol. 125, No. 3

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In the 1986 issue of the Bard College Bulletin, Perspectives, Blithewood Garden was featured on the cover. Inside, an article by the well-known garden writer Tovah Martin was illustrated with color photographs by Geoffrey Martin. Blithewood Garden is…

The Bard College Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2

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The entire issue of this alumni/ae newsletter was devoted to the 1951 gift of the Blithewood estate to Bard College. Created at the turn of the twentieth century by Francis L. V. Hoppin (1867–1941), of the architectural firm Hoppin & Koen, for…