Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners * Private Estates * 1890-1940

by Eleanor Weller and Mac Griswold

Book Overview

A tribute to America's grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners. The book presents over 500 of the nations's most exquisite gardens and the people who built them, from DuPont's Longwood (Pennsylvania) to the Huntington's San Marino Ranch (California).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810927373
• ISBN13: 9780810927377
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.4" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A "Golden Age"...but what about the West Coast?

This book is lovely! Full of rare old pictures of gorgeous golden age gardens and a lot of excellent, well-written text. You will learn something about gardens, American history and culture...the whole thing is so elegant and I've spent a great deal of time both reading and simply daydreaming at the images. Buy it! My disclaimer? The fact the authoresses are from the East Coast is embarrasingly obvious; segments on the West are consilliatory at best. Considering the birth of the silver screen, I find it a gross oversight not to include photos of the great Hollywood gardens, save one distant shot of Harold Loyd's estate...a "Golden Age" with no silver screen...?! So if you're from the West Coast or areas between east and west, you might be dissappointed, but the book is wonderful regardless. And we already knew what they thought of our "new money", didn't we?