Category Centre Island New York

Elizabeth Hoyt & Gladys Rice, Landscape Gardeners

March 28, 2015 · by · in 'Eastover' Long Island, Arnold Arboretum, Beatrix Farrand, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Centre Island New York, Charles Sprague Sargent, Dumbarton Oaks, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gladys Brooks, Gladys Rice, Gladys Saltonstall, Henry Adams, Lady Lindsay, Robert Woods Bliss · Leave a comment

What happened to the landscape gardening firm of Hoyt and Rice? Why didn’t the two mentees of Beatrix (Jones) Farrand, Charles Sprague Sargent and the staff at the Arnold Arboretum ever start their planned business together? While a footnote in the story of the landscape of the British Embassy, Washington, one wonders if the partnership […]

Centre Island Revisited

May 2, 2014 · by · in 'Eastover' Long Island, 'Red Maples' Southamton, Arnold Arboretum, Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Beatrix Farrand, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Centre Island New York, Charles Sherman Hoyt, Charles Sprague Sargent, Colgate Hoyt, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Lady Lindsay, Lime House Centre Island, Olivia Bayard Cutting James, Ronald Lindsay, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club · Leave a comment

The first ambassador’s wife to live in and influence the new British Embassy in Washington, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was the spirited Lady Lindsay. She has born Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt and grew up and died on Centre Island, New York. The place was formative to her character and early career, instilling a love of […]