Introduction | The Team | The Process | Key Findings | The Opportunites
The Vision Summary
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.”
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Possible Projects
The Master Plan includes many possible plans for the projects for the property. Over the course of the next year we will post the architects renderings of the possibilities. The first will be posted in February.
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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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