Walled rose garden, looking from rear towards house.
Perennial garden, looking back from house.
Ash tree beyond the perennial garden, by the hayfields, in winter.
The Stevens–Coolidge Place, formerly known as Ashdale Farm, is a garden and historic home located on 91 acres (37 ha) at 139 Andover Street in North Andover, Massachusetts. Helen Stevens Coolidge's family first acquired the farm in 1729, and from 1914 to 1962 it was her summer home with husband John Gardner Coolidge, diplomat, descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner. It is now a nonprofit museum operated by The Trustees of Reservations.
Between 1914 and 1918, architect Joseph Everett Chandler remodeled two late-Federal period farmhouses to form today's house. Chandler also enhanced the design of the landscape, which eventually included a perennial garden, a kitch and flower garden, and a rose garden (all in the Colonial Revival style).[1] A potager garden (kitchen garden in the French style) with a brick serpentine wall and a greenhouse complex were also built. The house's collections include Asian artifacts including Chinese porcelain, American furniture, and European decorative arts.
Bibliography
- Forsyth, Holly Kerr. Gardens of Eden: Among the World's Most Beautiful Gardens. Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2009.
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- Billingsgate Island
- Carr Island
- E. Howe Forbush
- Egg Rock
- Grace A. Robson
- J.C. Phillips
- Knight
- Penikese Island
- Ram Island (Salisbury)
- Ram Island (Mattapoisett)
- Susan B. Minns
- Tarpaulin Cove
- Watatic Mountain
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- Black Pond Bog
- Boat Meadow
- Francis Newhall Woods
- Grassy Pond
- Greene Swamp
- Halfway Pond Island
- Hawley Bog
- Hockomock Swamp
- Hoft Farm
- Homer-Watcha Preserve
- Katama Plains
- McElwain-Olsen
- Miacomet Moors
- Reed Brook
- Drury
- Sandy Neck
- David H. Smith Preserve and Fire Trail
- Stacy Mountain
- Tatkon
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- Allens Pond
- Arcadia
- Ashumet Holly
- Attleboro Springs
- Barnstable Great Marsh
- Blue Hills Trailside Museum
- Boston Nature Center
- Broad Meadow Brook
- Broadmoor
- Burncoat Pond
- Canoe Meadows
- Daniel Webster
- Drumlin Farm
- Eagle Lake
- Eastern Point
- Endicott
- Felix Neck
- Flat Rock
- Graves Farm
- Great Neck
- Habitat
- High Ledges
- Ipswich River
- Joppa Flats
- Kettle Island
- Lake Wampanoag
- Laughing Brook
- Lime Kiln Farm
- Lincoln Woods
- Long Pasture
- Lynes Woods
- Marblehead Neck
- Moose Hill
- Museum of American Bird Art
- Nahant Thicket
- Nashoba Brook
- North Hill Marsh
- North River
- Oak Knoll
- Pierpont Meadow
- Pleasant Valley
- Poor Farm Hill
- Richardson Brook
- Road's End
- Rough Meadows
- Rutland Brook
- Sampsons Island
- Sesachacha Heathlands
- Skunknett River
- Stony Brook
- Wachusett Meadow
- Waseeka
- Wellfleet Bay
- Wildwood Camp
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Coordinates: 42°40′53″N 71°7′5″W / 42.68139°N 71.11806°W / 42.68139; -71.11806