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Exciting changes are taking place on The Cummer's campus! Over the next year, the Museum is embarking on a landscape enhancement and Olmsted Garden restoration initiative. This project not only encompasses the restoration of the Olmsted Garden, a riverfront fragment from the estate of Waldo and Clara Cummer that is located just north of the Italian Garden, but also the renovation of the entire Riverside Avenue portion of The Cummer campus. During this phase of construction, the Museum's parking lots will be refurbished and the entire campus will be unified by landscape. The Cummer campus will become an important bridge between Riverside and Downtown.
In a just a few days, construction will be complete in the Olmsted Garden. You will finally be able to walk on the brick pathways, under the pergola and along the new bulkhead. You will be able to linger at the overlook, with its expansive vistas of the garden and the river, and you will be able to discover your own favorite places within the new landscape.
The completion of the Olmsted Garden, which has never been open to the public, nearly doubles The Cummer’s current riverfront footage, and provides the Museum with yet another platform to discuss art, design, history, and the environment, all through the use of our landscape. The Cummer Gardens, including the Olmsted Garden, were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The restoration of the Olmsted Garden is significant for The Cummer and the Community as it provides everyone with the opportunity to experience the Garden as it was originally designed.
Olmsted Donors and Sponsors
Linda Roe Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. James V.E. Bent, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Commander, III, Mrs. Maria R. Cox, Ms. Cheryl S. Cummer and Mr. Jack Lyle, Ann and David Hicks, Monica and Bob Jacoby, Carolyn Marsh Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Morris, Russell B Newton, Jr. and Joannie Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, III, Mrs. James H. Robbins, Ryan A. Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, Mrs. Bryan Simpson, Sandra Roe Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J, Frank Surface, Joan Van Vleck, Delores Barr Weaver and J. Wayne Weaver, Edna Sproull Williams Foundation, State of Florida
Special thanks to the hundreds of individuals who have made this project possible through their support of special initiatives like Garden Month and the Dedicate a Brick Campaign.
This project has been financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.
In the early 1930s, additional gardens on the Cummer family compound were developed by Waldo and Clara Cummer, the brother and sister-in-law of museum founders Arthur and Ninah Cummer. They engaged William Lyman Phillips, a partner in the Olmsted Brothers firm, to design their new garden spaces. These gardens were partially obliterated in the early 1960s, when both Cummer homes were demolished to make way for a new museum building to house Ninah Cummer's art collection, but plans are in place to restore this landscape to its former glory.
Exciting changes are taking place on The Cummer's campus! Over the next year, the Museum is embarking on a landscape enhancement and Olmsted Garden restoration initiative. This project not only encompasses the restoration of the Olmsted Garden, a riverfront fragment from the estate of Waldo and Clara Cummer that is located just north of the Italian Garden, but also the renovation of the entire Riverside Avenue portion of The Cummer campus. During this phase of construction, the Museum's parking lots will be refurbished and the entire campus will be unified by landscape. The Cummer campus will become an important bridge between Riverside and Downtown.
In a just a few days, construction will be complete in the Olmsted Garden. You will finally be able to walk on the brick pathways, under the pergola and along the new bulkhead. You will be able to linger at the overlook, with its expansive vistas of the garden and the river, and you will be able to discover your own favorite places within the new landscape.
The completion of the Olmsted Garden, which has never been open to the public, nearly doubles The Cummer’s current riverfront footage, and provides the Museum with yet another platform to discuss art, design, history, and the environment, all through the use of our landscape. The Cummer Gardens, including the Olmsted Garden, were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The restoration of the Olmsted Garden is significant for The Cummer and the Community as it provides everyone with the opportunity to experience the Garden as it was originally designed.
Olmsted Donors and Sponsors
Linda Roe Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. James V.E. Bent, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Commander, III, Mrs. Maria R. Cox, Ms. Cheryl S. Cummer and Mr. Jack Lyle, Ann and David Hicks, Monica and Bob Jacoby, Carolyn Marsh Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Morris, Russell B Newton, Jr. and Joannie Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, III, Mrs. James H. Robbins, Ryan A. Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, Mrs. Bryan Simpson, Sandra Roe Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J, Frank Surface, Joan Van Vleck, Delores Barr Weaver and J. Wayne Weaver, Edna Sproull Williams Foundation, State of Florida
Special thanks to the hundreds of individuals who have made this project possible through their support of special initiatives like Garden Month and the Dedicate a Brick Campaign.
This project has been financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.
In the early 1930s, additional gardens on the Cummer family compound were developed by Waldo and Clara Cummer, the brother and sister-in-law of museum founders Arthur and Ninah Cummer. They engaged William Lyman Phillips, a partner in the Olmsted Brothers firm, to design their new garden spaces. These gardens were partially obliterated in the early 1960s, when both Cummer homes were demolished to make way for a new museum building to house Ninah Cummer's art collection, but plans are in place to restore this landscape to its former glory.
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Exciting changes are taking place on The Cummer's campus! Over the next year, the Museum is embarking on a landscape enhancement and Olmsted Garden restoration initiative. This project not only encompasses the restoration of the Olmsted Garden, a riverfront fragment from the estate of Waldo and Clara Cummer that is located just north of the Italian Garden, but also the renovation of the entire Riverside Avenue portion of The Cummer campus. During this phase of construction, the Museum's parking lots will be refurbished and the entire campus will be unified by landscape. The Cummer campus will become an important bridge between Riverside and Downtown.
In a just a few days, construction will be complete in the Olmsted Garden. You will finally be able to walk on the brick pathways, under the pergola and along the new bulkhead. You will be able to linger at the overlook, with its expansive vistas of the garden and the river, and you will be able to discover your own favorite places within the new landscape.
The completion of the Olmsted Garden, which has never been open to the public, nearly doubles The Cummer’s current riverfront footage, and provides the Museum with yet another platform to discuss art, design, history, and the environment, all through the use of our landscape. The Cummer Gardens, including the Olmsted Garden, were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The restoration of the Olmsted Garden is significant for The Cummer and the Community as it provides everyone with the opportunity to experience the Garden as it was originally designed.
Olmsted Donors and Sponsors
Linda Roe Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. James V.E. Bent, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Commander, III, Mrs. Maria R. Cox, Ms. Cheryl S. Cummer and Mr. Jack Lyle, Ann and David Hicks, Monica and Bob Jacoby, Carolyn Marsh Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Morris, Russell B Newton, Jr. and Joannie Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, III, Mrs. James H. Robbins, Ryan A. Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, Mrs. Bryan Simpson, Sandra Roe Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J, Frank Surface, Joan Van Vleck, Delores Barr Weaver and J. Wayne Weaver, Edna Sproull Williams Foundation, State of Florida
Special thanks to the hundreds of individuals who have made this project possible through their support of special initiatives like Garden Month and the Dedicate a Brick Campaign.
This project has been financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.
In the early 1930s, additional gardens on the Cummer family compound were developed by Waldo and Clara Cummer, the brother and sister-in-law of museum founders Arthur and Ninah Cummer. They engaged William Lyman Phillips, a partner in the Olmsted Brothers firm, to design their new garden spaces. These gardens were partially obliterated in the early 1960s, when both Cummer homes were demolished to make way for a new museum building to house Ninah Cummer's art collection, but plans are in place to restore this landscape to its former glory.
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Exciting changes are taking place on The Cummer's campus! Over the next year, the Museum is embarking on a landscape enhancement and Olmsted Garden restoration initiative. This project not only encompasses the restoration of the Olmsted Garden, a riverfront fragment from the estate of Waldo and Clara Cummer that is located just north of the Italian Garden, but also the renovation of the entire Riverside Avenue portion of The Cummer campus. During this phase of construction, the Museum's parking lots will be refurbished and the entire campus will be unified by landscape. The Cummer campus will become an important bridge between Riverside and Downtown.
In a just a few days, construction will be complete in the Olmsted Garden. You will finally be able to walk on the brick pathways, under the pergola and along the new bulkhead. You will be able to linger at the overlook, with its expansive vistas of the garden and the river, and you will be able to discover your own favorite places within the new landscape.
The completion of the Olmsted Garden, which has never been open to the public, nearly doubles The Cummer’s current riverfront footage, and provides the Museum with yet another platform to discuss art, design, history, and the environment, all through the use of our landscape. The Cummer Gardens, including the Olmsted Garden, were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The restoration of the Olmsted Garden is significant for The Cummer and the Community as it provides everyone with the opportunity to experience the Garden as it was originally designed.
Olmsted Donors and Sponsors
Linda Roe Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Ball III, Mr. and Mrs. James V.E. Bent, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Commander, III, Mrs. Maria R. Cox, Ms. Cheryl S. Cummer and Mr. Jack Lyle, Ann and David Hicks, Monica and Bob Jacoby, Carolyn Marsh Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Morris, Russell B Newton, Jr. and Joannie Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, III, Mrs. James H. Robbins, Ryan A. Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff, Mrs. Bryan Simpson, Sandra Roe Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J, Frank Surface, Joan Van Vleck, Delores Barr Weaver and J. Wayne Weaver, Edna Sproull Williams Foundation, State of Florida
Special thanks to the hundreds of individuals who have made this project possible through their support of special initiatives like Garden Month and the Dedicate a Brick Campaign.
This project has been financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.
In the early 1930s, additional gardens on the Cummer family compound were developed by Waldo and Clara Cummer, the brother and sister-in-law of museum founders Arthur and Ninah Cummer. They engaged William Lyman Phillips, a partner in the Olmsted Brothers firm, to design their new garden spaces. These gardens were partially obliterated in the early 1960s, when both Cummer homes were demolished to make way for a new museum building to house Ninah Cummer's art collection, but plans are in place to restore this landscape to its former glory.
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