Backus Garden: perspective sketch by Thomas Warren Sears

Object Details

General: Perspective sketch by Thomas Warren Sears showing a sunken garden with a narrow strip of turf/garden borders leading to a fountain with a trellis on either side of it. The garden is surrounded by a brick wall and looks to have some kind of a greenhouse adjoining it, adjacent to the house. "Detroit, Mich." is indicated as the client location on the sketch, though the property is actually located in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Photographer: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Landscape architect: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Names: Backus, Standish, 1875-1943
Collection Creator: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966; Sears & Wendell; Olmsted Brothers; Harvard University; American Society of Landscape Architects

Place: Backus Garden (Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan); United States of America -- Michigan -- Wayne County -- Grosse Pointe -- Grosse Pointe Shores

Topic: Perspective drawings; Formal gardens; Houses; Gardens -- Michigan -- Grosse Pointe Shores

See more items in: Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection; Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection / Series 1: Photographic Images / United States / Michigan / MI024: Grosse Pointe -- Backus Garden

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

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