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Article: A Trio of Gardens.(Brief Article)
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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WILMINGTON, DE
In 1916 Marian Cruger Coffin, one of the first female graduates of MIT's landscape architecture program, began a two-acre terraced garden on the steep hillside of GIBRALTAR, H. Rodney and Isabella du Pont Sharp's estate. Based on Italian Renaissance models, Gibraltar's garden featured sculpture-lined vistas, massive stone walls and staircases draped with seasonally changing flowers, and a collection of classical pools, fountains and outbuildings. On the brink of losing Gibraltar to townhouse development in 1995, Preservation Delaware, Inc., engineered its purchase and raised $2 million for the garden's restoration.
With the Sharp family's ...