Resumen de Echoes of England and Italy "on the edge of the world": Green Gables and Charles Greene
In 1911, Mortimer Fleishhacker, Sr., a prominent figure in the banking and Jewish communities of San Francisco, commissioned Charles Greene of Pasadena to design a substantial country house and garden, Green Gables, at Woodside in California. This commission, which was the largest ever undertaken by the firm of Greene & Greene, occupied the architect's attention intermittently until 1929 by which time the garden was substantially complete. The architectural work of this firm has been amply discussed in the considerable body of recent literature. But the importance of their landscape designs has been largely neglected. The significance of this garden as the largest landscape ever created by an arts and crafts designer in America will be discussed in this essay by examining the relative contributions of the client, the designer, and prevailing garden theory to a site of unusual grandeur.
