Thematic Features
Heroes of Horticulture (2007)
Highlighting significant horticultural features that have stood steadfast in the face of almost insurmountable natural and cultural odds; having born witness to the heritage of our nation.
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Spotlight on the Garden (2006)
Many gardens, like historic buildings, are national treasures on our cultural endangered species list. Those being created by today’s visionaries could be destroyed within a generation.
Working Landscapes (2004)
Placing a spotlight on seven at-risk historic rural landscapes where people worked the land: farms and ranches, shipyards and railroad yards.
Designed Landscapes (2002)
Focusing on masterworks of landscape architecture designed in the past 250 years that are at-risk.
FEATURES: Properties Currently At-Risk
Posted: April 2008
Estates Drive Reservoir, Oakland, California
The free-flowing Modernist plan of the reservoir was designed by Robert Royston, one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century.
Posted: April 2008
Landslide Saved: Gerdemann Garden
The garden is a celebrated regional treasure of biological diversity with exotic plants, native species, and hybrids developed by Dr. Gerdemann.
Posted: January 2008
Park Central Square, Springfield, Missouri
In response to proposed major changes, longtime Springfield, Missouri resident, Ruth Kelley ignites discourse for forgotten Halprin-designed park.
Posted: November 2007
Buckland, VA: Preserving a Working Landscape
In 2004, the town and farm of Buckland was selected as one of TCLF’s Landslide resources. Read what has been done since then to preserve the working landscape.
Posted: September 2007
This Post-War housing complex, one of the largest west of the Mississippi, is at risk as San Francisco State University expands.
Posted: August 2007
Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
The Bell Labs complex designed by Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche and Sasaki, Walker and Associates in Holmdel, New Jersey, is at risk as developers plan for the site's future.
Posted: June 2007
Pinehurst’s Historic Landscape
North Carolina’s Pinehurst National Historic Landmark District, including the Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and Warren H. Manning landscape, are being threatened by a proposed roundabout.
Posted: January 2007
Planned freeway construction is once again threatening one of Seattle's most culturally important landscapes. The Arboretum that is not only a civic treasure, but an astounding horticultural resource for the entire region.
Posted: November 2006
Rockefeller Park & Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Rockefeller Park and its landmark Cleveland Cultural Gardens are threatened by a proposed stream restoration project of Doan Brook, an urban stream that runs along the entire length of the park.
Posted: August 2006
Dan Kiley Landscape - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
The site is threatened by a proposed Downtown Transportation Center. The hope is that by raising awareness of the significance of this project, the City will create a design that is minimally intrusive on Kiley’s landscape.
Posted: December 2005
Building in the Aftermath: Rebuilding the Big Easy-Not so Easy
A paper by Suzanne Turner on the perspective that landscape architecture brings to the challenge of rebuilding New Orleans and its regional landscape following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Posted: July 2005
The mill is the subject of a fierce preservation fight between concerned citizens, Zirkle family members and the Frontier Culture Museum, a Virginia State Agency.
Coming in November!
Landslide 2008: Marvels of Modernism
Landscapes at Risk
The goal of TCLF’s Landslide program is to draw immediate attention to endangered (or threatened) nationally significant cultural landscapes. In establishing this program, TCLF aims to serve as a catalyst for an informed discourse in the hopes of encouraging responsible community involvement and wise stewardship decisions. The posted web features are written by outside individuals and do not necessarily represent the opinions of TCLF.
Landslide in Action!
Landslide is designed to educate and thereby rally support at the local, state, and national levels by calling attention to endangered landscapes and cultural landscape resources that are in and near your own community.
Landslide is an interactive, online resource highlighting threats to cultural landscapes and directing the public to those groups working to protect them. Landslide provides a history of each threatened site; presents its social, cultural, and artistic significance; gives a biography of the landscape architect or designer; and details the current threat. Moreover, Landslide connects the public to the preservation effort by providing links to the groups that are working to safeguard each site for the benefit of today and for future generations.
Saved and Lost !
Thanks to public advocacy and education many of these endangered landscapes have been preserved for future generations. Unfortunately, for some, it was too late.