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
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.
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…