White Plains -- Homeside

Object Details

General: Mr. and Mrs. James A. Thomas commissioned Ellen Shipman to design the landscape for their estate, called Homeside, in White Plains, New York around 1936. Shipman designed several gardens including a flower garden, cutting garden, and rock garden, in addition to architectural features such as the walls, terraces, steps, gates, and a tool house, greenhouse, and additions and alterations to the main house. Her gardens included a fountain and pool with perennial borders, and bulb, shrub, and tree plantings. She also changed the entrance drive and added screen plantings between it and the garden walls. Persons Associated: James A. Thomas (former owners); Ellen Biddle Shipman (landscape architect).

Place: United States of America -- New York -- Westchester County -- White Plains; Homeside (White Plains, New York)

See more items in: Ellen Shipman Garden Photography Collection; Ellen Shipman Garden Photography Collection / Gardens / New York

Sponsor: Cataloging of the Ellen Shipman Garden Photography Collection was made possible with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ellen Shipman garden photography collection.

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Related Materials: Cornell University, Ellen Shipman Papers, Ithaca, New York.