Edgewood (MD): overall plan of the garden, showing such features as the sunken garden with its tapis vert or green carpet, the pergola, walkways, and the greenhouse.

Object Details

General: Although the plan, which probably dates to 1913, appears to indicate Michael Jenkins (1842-1915) as the owner of Edgewood, it is fairly certain that he merely commissioned the design and landscaping of the site, perhaps as a 75th birthday gift for his sister Eliza. Edgewood was the country home of Eliza Lucas Jenkins (1838-1916) and had been purchased for her and her sister Ellen M. Jenkins (1841-1908) by another sibling, Joseph W. Jenkins (1840-1921). Michael Jenkins lived nearby at his own estate, Llewellyn (see images in MD360).

Photographer: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Landscape architect: Sears & Wendell
Collection Creator: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966; Sears & Wendell; Olmsted Brothers; Harvard University; American Society of Landscape Architects

Place: Edgewood (Baltimore, Maryland); United States of America -- Maryland -- Baltimore

See more items in: Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection; Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection / Series 1: Photographic Images / United States / Maryland / MD056: Baltimore -- 'Edgewood,' Jenkins, Michael

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection.

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