1890s
The Gilded Age estates of the Berkshires — their landscapes, their houses, and the people who made them.
Stockbridge · 1892–94
The Wheatleigh Plans
An introduction and seven articles read out of forty-seven drawings by Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot for the Henry H. Cook estate — with the drawings themselves, full size.
Read the Wheatleigh plans →
Lenox · 1885–86 and 1924–29
Elm Court
The Sloane–Vanderbilt estate, drawn twice by the Olmsted firm for the same woman under two names — and a garden rebuilt in fourteen months, photographed from bare soil to full bloom.
See Elm Court →
The novel
My novel, The Second Growth, is set in these years at these places and is due out in 2027.