THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ. AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ. AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

  The house is on top of a hill with a wide outlook over a lake and the surrounding country, while the gardens are down below, in the sheltered lowland.

  The walls of the gardens are a warm rose-pink, with piers, copings, balustrades and steps in limestone coloring. The warmth of tone of these accessories confirms the intimate homey feeling imparted by the planting and furnishings —tubs and urns, troughs and vases, figures and sculptured reliefs.

  A shrubbery-bordered path leads from the house through iron-work gates to a small balustraded upper terrace or garden with ornamental beds of low bedding plants. All the gardens are on different levels, which, of course, adds much to their charm. The centre garden is rich in flower bloom, especially with phlox and lilies in August. The east garden has beds of low-spreading roses, with climbers upon the walls — a gracious, rambling rose garden without stiffness. Again there are the same charming gates as at the western entrance.

  Along the whole northern length of the main garden is a raised grass terrace, partly covered with a pergola; on the south is another lawn garden with two wall pools and a path across its centre that leads straight from the pergola through the main garden to a tea-nook under a great spreading tree beyond.

PLAN OF THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.
BEATRIX JONES FARRAND, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

STEPS TO THE UPPER GARDEN - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

MAIN PATH - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

PATH IN MAIN GARDEN IN AUGUST - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

LOWER ENTRANCE GATE AND ROSE GARDEN - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

WALL, WITH OLD ENGLISH LEAD TROUGH - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

UNDER THE PERGOLA - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

FROM THE STEPS OF THE PERGOLA - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

WALL POOLS OF SOUTHERN GARDEN - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

FROM SOUTHERN GARDEN TO TEA TABLE UNDER GREAT TREE - THE GARDENS OF ROBERT GOELET, ESQ., AT "GLENMERE", CHESTER, N. Y.

  Click HERE to see "Glenmere" at wikimapia. BING - other angles show the property prior to renovation and the conversion into a 18 room Bed and Breakfast. John Foreman's  Big Old Houses and New York  Social Diary has a nice mix of current photos and history of the estate.

  "Glen - Mere".