{"id":626,"date":"2022-11-01T16:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cheekwood.local\/discover\/the-estate\/historic-landscape\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:00:51","slug":"historic-landscape","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/discover\/the-estate\/historic-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"banner banner--background\" style=\"background-color: ;\"><div class=\"banner__overlay\" style=\"background-color: ;\"><\/div><div class=\"banner__content\"><h1>Historic Landscape<\/h1>\n<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"banner__image\" src=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Front Gate c1932 1 scaled\" \/><\/div><!-- .banner -->[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Historic Landscape<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\">Bryant Fleming designed Cheekwood to respond to its natural environment and surrounding landscape. The integral role of the landscape to the design of the Estate is best exemplified through its many vistas, water features, and historic gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Vistas <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30565\" src=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-1208x1536.jpg 1208w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-1610x2048.jpg 1610w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Front-Gate-c1932-1-scaled.jpg 2013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>View of the house from the front gate c. 1933 \/ Collection of Cheekwood Botanical Garden &amp; Museum of Art Archives<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Fleming designed the house to have six major vistas \u2014 three of which remain unencumbered by plant growth and urban development. Two vistas focus on the views of the house \u2014 one from the front gate and along the driveway, and the second from the front lawn. As guests arrived at the front gate and drove along the non-linear path to the house, they would see glimpses of the house through the trees until they reached the front lawn, where the house would fully reveal itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Three additional vistas frame views from the house out into the surrounding landscape. These views highlight the Estate\u2019s proximity to the Warner Parks, whose preservation efforts have led to the retention of some of Cheekwood\u2019s original vistas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Water Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30567\" src=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reflecting-Pool-1-1-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reflecting-Pool-1-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reflecting-Pool-1-1-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reflecting-Pool-1-1-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Reflecting Pool c. 1933 \/ Collection of Cheekwood Botanical Garden &amp; Museum of Art Archives<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">One of Mabel Cheek\u2019s requests for the design of Cheekwood was to be able to hear the sounds of flowing water permeate throughout the grounds. Fleming took advantage of the land\u2019s natural shifts in elevation when complying with Mabel\u2019s ask. The water features, including the Swan Lawn fountain, Reflecting Pool, Titan\u2019s Cup, and man-made creeks and ponds across the grounds, were originally connected with underground pipes and pumps \u2014 the water flowed from the Swan Fountain, sitting at the highest elevation on the grounds, to the Reflecting Pool and below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Historic Gardens\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30568\" src=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Parterre-Garden-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Parterre-Garden-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Parterre-Garden-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Parterre-Garden-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Parterre Garden c. 1933 \/ Collection of Cheekwood Botanical Garden &amp; Museum of Art Archives<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Other historic elements designed by Fleming are the styled gardens. These beauties encompass the Reflecting Pool, the Swan Lawn, and hybrid Parterre and cutting garden. While the Reflecting Pool and Swan Lawn still remain at Cheekwood, the Parterre cutting garden was removed in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">An additional fixture of the Cheek residency is the boxwood collection that surrounds the house. Many of these boxwoods, originally collected by Leslie Cheek Sr., were the foundation of Cheekwood\u2019s first horticultural plant collection. The blooms that inhabit these historic gardens are known as the Martin Boxwood Gardens today.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Historic Landscape Bryant Fleming designed Cheekwood to respond to its natural environment and surrounding landscape. 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