#fletcher steele

On Milton Hill, Milton Massachusetts. House from around 1855 with the garden design by Fletcher Steele.

Rocklawn was the summer house of the Stoddard Family with the gardens created on a hillside overlooking the ocean at Bass Rocks. Fletcher Steele designed the gardens in the 1930s. The Stoddards were friends with my Great Aunt Marjorie and she stayed at this house many summers in the forties and fifties. One of my earliest garden memories was visiting her there in the late fifties. Photo taken by Fletcher Steele in the forties. Gloucester Massachusetts.

Fletcher Steele designed the gardens at Rolling Ridge, North Andover Massachusetts. 1916-22 The summer house of Ethan Allen from New York. Semi preserved as a Methodist Church retreat. These steps and fountain were 20 years before the most famous of Steele’s gardens, Naumkeag in Stockbridge Massachusetts.

The Afternoon Garden at Naumkeag, Stockbridge Massachusetts. Fletcher Steele designed the gardens at Naumkeag over a thirty year period. Open to the public.

Hyghe Contente was the summer house of Mary Kenly in Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts. Fletcher Steele designed the gardens.

Mabel Choate in her Afternoon Garden at her country house, Naumkeag. Stockbridge Massachusetts. The famed gardens were designed by Fletcher Steele in the thirties.

Art Deco design by Fletcher Steele. This garden was for Claude Branch in Seekonk Massachusetts. Claude Branch was a well known Boston and Providence lawyer, who was Assistant Attorney General, partner in the Boston law firm Choate Hall and Stewart and was President of the Providence and Worcester RR. This is one of the first Deco garden designs in the country.

the Afternoon Garden. Naumkeag. Stockbridge Massachusetts. Fletcher Steele. Landscape Architect.