The Shady Garden

To the west of the main entrance to the house and leading out from the Tea Room was the Shady Garden, offering a French boulingrin lawn that led to a small fountain by Frank Lynn Jenkins that was flanked by two urns on pedestals, and just beyond that a statue overlooking a small valley to the west.

Aerial view of the house taken in 1942, showing the Shady Garden on the western side of the house

Photo Source: Pennsylvania State Archives

Originally, the stairs leading west from the Tea Room to the Shady Garden were flanked by two large urns.

Photo Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

Later, two terra cotta sphinxes by Visseaux replaced the urns. The Belvedere next to the Upper Terrace is in the distance.

An unusual objet on a pedestal, possibly by Visseaux, is on the right.

Photo Source: Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Looking west toward the Shady Garden, where a boulingrin led to a fountain pool flanked by urns on pedestals.

Beyond that, an 18th century statue of "A Winged Youth Playing with a Goat" by Martin Claude Monot overlooked a sloping lawn leading to a small valley

Photo Source: Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Urns (possibly by Visseaux) on pedestals were on either side of the fountain by Frank Lynn Jenkins

Photo Source: Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

The cherub fountain by Frank Lynn Jenkins on the west side of the boulingrin in the Shady Garden

Photo Source: Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

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