Steedman Garden: photographic image of Sibley Coslett Smith's plan for the garden at 271 Angell Street, known as the Charles Steedman house.

Object Details

General: The date 1912, the year the house was built for Mary Balch Lippitt Steedman (widow of Charles John Steedman), has been assigned to this image. Thomas W. Sears left Providence the following year to establish his practice in Philadelphia.

Photographer: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Creator: Steedman, Charles J., Mrs.
Landscape architect: Smith, Sibley Coslett
Former owner: Steedman family
Collection Creator: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966; Sears & Wendell; Olmsted Brothers; Harvard University; American Society of Landscape Architects

Place: Steedman Garden (Providence, Rhode Island); United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Providence County -- Providence

See more items in: Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection; Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection / Series 1: Photographic Images / United States / Rhode Island / RI052: Providence -- Steedman Garden

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

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