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  • Collection: Blithewood Garden

Inscription and bookplate in the 2nd edition of Downing's Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture

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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.

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…

The Garden at Blithewood, Barrytown, NY

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The formal gardens with central fountain at Blithewood, now part of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The Hudson River can be seen in the background.

Blithewood Garden

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Taken soon after the transfer of the Blithewood Estate to Bard College in 1951, this photograph by Charles Eggert depicts the garden with the formal shrubbery intended in the original 1903 Hoppin & Koen plan commissioned by Mrs. Andrew C. Zabriskie