Symington Garden: looking out from the sunken garden toward an arbor with bench seating.

Object Details

General: Green Spring Valley, Maryland, is given as the location of the garden in a photograph published in American Society of Landscape Architects: Illustrations of Work of Members (New York: The House of J. Hayden Twiss, Publishers, 1931).

Former owner: Symington, Donald
Landscape architect: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Photographer: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Collection Creator: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966; Sears & Wendell; Olmsted Brothers; Harvard University; American Society of Landscape Architects

Place: United States of America -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- Owings Mills; Symington Garden (Owings Mills, Maryland)

Topic: Walls, stone; Walkways, flagstone; Irises (Plants); Sunken gardens; Garden borders; Benches, wooden; Stairs, stone; Arbors; Climbing plants; Ponds; Gardens -- Maryland -- Owings Mills

See more items in: Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection; Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection / Series 1: Photographic Images / United States / Maryland / MD075: Owings Mills -- Symington, Donald

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection.

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