Introduction | The Team | The Process | Key Findings | The Opportunites
Site History
This site history was prepared as part of the Master Plan for Blithewold to document the physical evolution of the site, to identify character-defining features and to provide a platform for discussion of the significance of the site and its components. Communication of the site’s significance, in turn, will form the foundation for preservation and redevelopment recommendations in the Master Plan. Read more...
Gardner House, view from the north, Main entrance to the Gardner property
The Statement of Cultural Significance
Blithewold, is nationally significant in American history as one of the most fully developed, best-documented and intact examples of the Country Place era in the United States, and for its high artistic value in representing the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement on domestic design in this country. Read more...
Tennis & Boating at Blithewold
The Vision for Blithewold in the Future
Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum is widely recognized as a thoughtfully conserved and authentic historic site of consequence; a cultural landscape of historical importance and contemporary relevance; and a place of tranquility, beauty, and repose.
Blithewold respects founding family member Bessie Van Wickle’s vision of creating “an estate in which new beauties are constantly revealed and the perfect accord between Architecture and Grounds is ever apparent.”
More Key Findings will be posted each month.
- Coming Soon- Possible Projects Part 1
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Thursday, May 17
Mah Jongg -
Saturday, May 19
The New England 24th Annual Tree Climbing Competition -
Thursday, May 24
Mah Jongg
Upcoming events
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Euphor(b)ia
(May 15, '12)
For this mid-May Garden Bloggers Bloom Day hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens, I’m going to postpone the usual list of all of the amazing things that are blooming suddenly all at once and go into euphoric raptures about a single fantastic genus that has been blooming for a while now. One of them ... -
Sailing on the Bay
(Apr 19, '12)
In the summer of 1894 Augustus Van Wickle, a graduate of Brown University, and his daughter Marjorie came to Rhode Island to scout out locations where Augustus might build a summer home for his family. Although they stayed in Narragansett … Continue reading
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