HOUSE MUSEUMS

FRANCES PERKINS HOMESTEAD DAMARISCOTTA, ME

CLIENT: Frances Perkins Center

The Frances Perkins Center is located on the summer property of the first female US Cabinet member and coauthor of the New Deal. BRR. worked with the Spencer Preservation Group to preserve the Homestead’s house and barn as a living laboratory to inspire current and future generations.

THE OLD MANSE CONCORD, MA

CLIENT: The Trustees of Reservations

Reverend William Emerson built the Manse in 1770. It is registered as a National Historic Landmark. In later years, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne lived here The gardens, historic entry, trees, stone walls, fields, boathouse and orchards are all character defining features of this cultural landscape.

Landscape design services included providing for accessible circulation, parking, fencing, and planting, all of which would be appropriately scaled, detailed, and contextually appropriate for this historically and ecologically sensitive site. In addition, the restoration of landscape conditions present within the period of significance were explored.