File:Arlington House - looking northeast at Flower Garden - 2011.jpg
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DescriptionArlington House - looking northeast at Flower Garden - 2011.jpg |
English: Standing on the driveway south of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, at Arlington National Cemetery. I'm looking southeast toward Mary Custis Lee's flower garden.
Designed by George Washington Parke Custis, the garden originally featured a path down the center north-south axis. In the center was a wooden arbor covered in yellow jasmine and red and pink honeysuckle vines. The hexagonal arbor was roughly 10 feet high, with a concave latticework roof that came to a point. Its sides were also covered in latticework, and although the structure was of rough wood the latticework wood was smooth and painted. Wooden benches lined the interior. Two magnolia trees, one pink and one white, grew near the arbor in the center of the flower garden. The south portion of teh garden was mostly shrubs and boxwood hedges. The northern end was contained shrubs, perennials, and annuals, and featured roses and dahlias. Flowers grown in the garden were sold, either as bouquets or nosegays, in order to raise money for the American Colonization Society (an organization which sent freed African slaves back to Africa to live permanently). The garden was largely laid waste during the Civil War. It was rebuilt several times in the late 1800s, and in 1884 a "Temple of Fame" (a Neoclassical dome supported by marble columns) was erected in the flower garden where the arbor used to be. The Temple of Fame was removed in 1967, and the flower gardens restored to their 1861 condition. Arlington House was built by George Washington Parke Custis, adopted son of George Washington, in 1803. George Hadfield, also partially designed the United States Capitol, designed the mansion. The north and south wings were completed between 1802 and 1804. but the large center section and portico were not finished until 1817. George Washington Parke Custis died in 1857, leaving the Arlington estate and house to his eldest daughter, Mary Custis Lee -- wife of General Robert E. Lee. |
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Author | Tim Evanson |
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