History
Virginia is proud of its historic places and in particular of its historic
landscape legacy, from Civil War battlefields to the landmark home grounds
owned by Washington and Jefferson. Richmond, Virginia, in particular,
has an expansive legacy of historic designed landscapes, beginning with
John Notman's (1810-1865) pioneering designs for Capitol Square and Hollywood
Cemetery and continuing into the twentieth century with Charles Gillette's
(1886-1969) eclectic designs for such iconic gardens as Richmond's Agecroft
Hall and the Virginia House Museum. Gillette's work was rich in European
traditions of the Renaissance-era, but it also was equally influenced
by themes of 18th- century Virginian precursors. This tradition of inspiration
from Virginia garden designs did not end in the 1950s. Through a thoroughly
Modernist design, Lawrence Halprin would celebrate and reinterpret this
heritage in the 1970s in the Pedestrian Mall, Charlottesville Virginia
(1974), and in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' North Wing Expansion
project with architects Hardwicke Associates (1976).
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