The Blue Garden: Recapturing an Iconic Newport Landscape

This is a compelling story about the decline and rebirth of a 100 year old garden. Until recently, the Blue Garden, an icon of Gilded Age splendour in Newport, Rhode Island, was known only from hand—tinted slides dating from 1917. Originally designed in collaboration with the garden’s original owner by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr, and the Olmsted firm—founded by his father, the great landscape architect responsible for Central Park, New York City—it has now been brought back to life. Landscap...