LaForce Garden

Object Details

General: Images show a contemporary colonial style house featuring a long driveway and brick walkway leading up to the main entrance. A slope at the back of this house was terraced and included informal borders of shrubs and ground cover plants.; Persons associated with the garden include Nelva M. Weber (landscape architect, ca. 1960-1976) and the LaForce family (former owners, ca. 1960-1976).

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Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.

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Bibliography: Garden has been featured in Nelva M. Weber, How to Plan Your Own Home Landscape (Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), p. 281.

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