Gardens for Mr. and Mrs. Edw. F. Hutton at Wheatly Hills. L. I.

Gardens for Mr. and Mrs. Edw. F. Hutton at Wheatly Hills. L. I.
Marian C. Coffin, Landscape Architect.

   The gardens were designed as a  series of  interlocking landscape units that either related closely to the principal living spaces of the house or that led away from it up a steep rise to the east. All of the trees were moved in by Lewis and Valentine at the size shown in the photographs. Large box bushes were similarly transplanted for instant effect.

THE GREAT LAWN -  2002

IRISES BLOOMING - STONE-EDGED STREAM

  Wedged between two wings on the east side of the house was a boxwood court. Meandering away from this formal area was a small stone-edged stream. Water for the stream came from the overflow of the ice box.  

STONE-EDGED STREAM - 2002

ICE HOUSE - ORIGINAL SOURCE FOR STREAM - 2002

TULIPS BLOOMING - ENGLISH BRICK GARDEN

   A covered arbor at the south end of the house led to the English Brick Garden. Beyond the English brick garden was a putting green. Beyond that was a woodland vista, its terminus indistinct, which was framed by laurels Rhododendrons  and other shade-loving  plants. Collin felt that landscapes should suggest the mystery of unseen areas.

ENGLISH BRICK GARDEN - 1935

THE ENGLISH BRICK GARDEN - 2002

PUTTING GREEN, LOOKING NORTH TOWARDS THE ENGLISH BRICK GARDEN, ROSE ARBOR AT THE RIGHT - 1935

MAGNOLIA WALK  - AT THE AXIS THE ENGLISH BRICK GARDEN IS TO THE LEFT, DIRECTLY NORTH THE HOUSE. TO THE RIGHT THE OPENING LEADS TO THE TENNIS COURT, BEHIND THE VIEW IS THE ROSE ARBOR   

MAGNOLIA WALK - 1945

  At the south end of the walk was a brick rose arbor which led up to a circular rose garden surrounded by brick posts connected to each other by chains and by brick benches pierced with oval openings. To the north of the rose garden was a tennis court. To the east of this, at the highest elevation, an oval topiary garden was planned but may not have been built. SOURCE OF TEXT

WINTER VIEW OF ARBOR - 2002

  After what became known as "The Battle of "Oyster Bay" in 1955, the estate was converted into Long Island University's C. W. Post College, over local residents' objections. 


  Click HERE to see "Hillwood" at wikimapia.  Old Long Island.com has the gardens as they are today and a overhead aerial from the 30's showing the gardens as laid out by Marian Cruger Coffin.