Pre-visit:
- Archer Huntington was the founder and quoted saying "Quiet joining of hands between science and art."
- More than 500 pieces of 19th century and 20th century American sculpture.
- Archer Huntington was married to Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1923.
- Anna was one of America's premier sculptors.
- Huntington had commissioned Anna to design a medal for William Dean Howells.
- Huntington's first heard of Brookgreen plantation and bought it and surrounded land about 9000 acres.
- Many features of the old plantation were used, including some of the original plantings, natural forests and swamp areas.
- They decided that stone and metal sculptures were best suited for the garden.
- Winding openwork brick wall
- Walls laid out in the shape of a huge butterfly with outspread wings
- large formal garden
- Dogwood garden
- Magnolia allee
- Saint James triad
- Palmetto garden
- memorial garden
- long expanses of lawn
- Heron,grouse and look
- Don quixote
- large live oak avenue
- anna's first statue youth taming the wild
- diana of the chase
- brown sculpture court
- rosen carolina terrace
- gretchen's garden
- Dionysus
- time and the fates of man
- pegasus
- gazelle fountain
- carolines garden
- old kitchen
- fountain of the muses
- Magnolias
- oleander
- carolina jessamine
- oaks
- live oak
- tulips
- holly
- saw palmetto
- azalea
- rhododendron
- crepe myrtle
- liriope
- creeping fig
- ornamental cabbage
- pansy
- fatsia
- redbud
- boxwood
- ivy
- palmetto
- narcissus
- flowering quince
- gilanthus
- camellia
- ligustrum
- nandina
Essence: Elegant statuesque landscape
Post-Visit:
- The circulation was amazing compared to Middleton.
- Beautiful sculpture against the native landscape.
- Statues tucked away and in plane sight
- Lots of spanish moss showcasing statues
- wonderful people work there
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