Hershey Department Store: Foundation Planting; Industrial Planting

Object Details

General note: Lawn and bushes outside the Hershey Department Store and the large stone house owned by Edwin Hershey. On the corner of Chocolate and Park Avenues. The large stone house next to the store was torn down sometime in the 1960s or 1970s. Today, the department store building is called the Hershey Press Building which houses several restaurants and is the headquarters for Hershey Entertainment and Resorts.; The wooden garden furniture is similar in design to the wooden bridges Milton Hershey had placed over Spring Creek in the early years of Hershey Park.

Collection Creator: McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948; American Rose Society

Place: Hershey Department Store (Hershey, Pennsylvania); United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Dauphin County -- Hershey

Topic: Foundation planting; Chairs; Outdoor furniture; Lawns; Rustic work; Department stores

See more items in: J. Horace McFarland Company collection; J. Horace McFarland Company collection / Series 1: Garden Images / United States / Pennsylvania / PA679: Hershey -- Hershey Department Store

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, J. Horace McFarland Company Collection.

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