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FEATURES Narratives Embedded in the Land Landscape architect Jay Graham shares his creative process.

Saint Anne’s Church: A Romanesque Beauty on Church Circle

Architect Chip Bohl muses upon the history and severe beauty of this famous church.

Sneak Preview of an Urban Patio on the Secret Garden Tour

Annapolis Home peeks into a garden on the Hammond-Harwood House tour.

DEPARTMENTS

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Robert’s Picks

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Cover photograph: Jay Graham Landscape

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CONTENTS

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Serenity on the South River Waterfront zoning restrictions inspire a perfect pool.

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Editor Kymberly B. Taylor Creative Director Ryan Gladhill Senior Designer Samantha Gladhill

Publishers’ Letter

Contributing Photographers Geoffrey Hodgdon Christine Fillat

Welcome to the Landscape Issue, which we have filled with great things for you. This was not difficult, given the beauty of Annapolis and the time of year. We are in early summer, a season as beautiful and painful as music that captivates your heart and drifts away—you cannot hold it in your hands. I know this because I (Kymberly) grew up on an ancient point of land on the Magothy River where this special season was intoxicating, almost exhausting, with forsythia and dogwood that seemed to riot and bloom forth overnight, replaced all too soon by calm green leaves. The law of this land was (and still is, just ask my parents) to grow at a ferocious pace and to resist landscaping of any kind.

Architectural Columnist Chip Bohl Contributing Writers Allison Titman Christine Fillat Mollie Ridout Gay Jervey Copyeditor Katie Pierce

But what I have learned and share with you here is that there are professionals who are highly successful because they are able to discern each landscape's inner law and natural force, contend with it, and shape it with knowledge and care. In our story "Serenity on the South River," Steve McHale and a team of professionals, due to strict setback rules, design and landscape a pool on a side lot, creating fertile ground out of a "problem space."

Jay Graham, FSLA and the subject of our new Portfolio section, discerns the natural laws guiding the smallest plot or great land mass, and only then begins his work. There is much more to discover within our pages, including an essay by Chip Bohl on Saint Anne's Church and Church Circle, our city's famous landmark situated on a natural hill near the edge of a well-travelled horse path that today we call West Street and Main Street.

We close by wishing Mollie Ridout, our wonderful garden columnist, and her family our sympathy and safekeeping following the recent loss of Orlando Ridout, an important historian who led many restoration efforts throughout Annapolis.

Until next time,

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In the spirit of our landscape issue, we present here one of the greatest nature paintings of all time, Frederic Church's Niagara of 1857. The painting, conceived when artists were still discovering the vast landscape of America, is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. With just a short drive, you can stand before it and inspect every breathtaking detail.

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After you read Chip Bohl’s essay in this issue on St. Anne’s Church, make plans to attend one of the excellent performances as part of the St. Anne’s Concert Series. St. Anne’s Parish brings some of the best musicians in the region to Annapolis. On May 16th, St. Anne’s presents the United States Army Field Band Ambassadors; and on May 30th, St. Anne’s hosts Peter Griggs—500 Years of Music for Guitar. For more information, go to www.stannes-annapolis.org.

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Annapolis Home is pleased to be a sponsor and to offer you a sneak preview of the Secret Garden Tour, which takes places on Saturday, June 1st and Sunday, June 2nd. The Tour benefits the Hammond-Harwood House, a national treasure and one of the greatest examples of colonial architecture. For ticket information, visit www.hammondharwoodhouse.org.

Robert Haywood, Ph.D., studied art and architectural history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has taught at MIT and Johns Hopkins University and has been a residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

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Wolf Trap is America’s national park for the performing arts. The late Catherine Filene Shouse founded Wolf Trap by donating one hundred acres of her Vienna, Virginia, farmland to the U.S. Government, as well as funds for construction of a 6,800-seat indoor and outdoor theatre. Throughout the summer, you can experience performances ranging from pop, country, folk, and blues to orchestra, dance, theater, and opera. For a list of concerts and performances at Wolf Trap this summer go to www.wolftrap.org.

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From April to August, the Wednesday Night Sailboat Races are part of the cultural landscape in Annapolis.

The race series is held every Wednesday night through August 28th. You can participate in or watch the races, which are sponsored by the Annapolis Yacht Club. For more information go to www.annapolisyc.com.

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The 26th Annual Antique and Classic Boat Festival takes place at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels on June 14th–June 16th. This boat event is the largest of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. For information, visit www.chesapeakebayacbs.org.

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Narratives embedded in the land the work of Jay Graham

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Portfolio

By Kymberly Taylor

Jay Graham became a landscape architect almost by chance. After graduating with a degree in architecture from the University of Virginia in 1969, he worked as an architect at RTKL, a prominent Baltimore firm. Arbitrarily, he was seated near a landscape architect.

He would visit his desk often and became more interested in his work than his own. “That influenced me. On some of these projects, in the early 1970s, architecture was not that attractive. I began to think that the spaces between the buildings were more interesting than the buildings,” he recollects.

He was laid off from RTKL with many others and, when working on a short-term project involving his alma mater, University of Virginia, was invited to join the first class of their new graduate program in landscape architecture. He graduated in 1972 and began a journey that led him from the genteel slopes of UVA, to the turf of Camden Yards, where he landscaped a platform for Pope John Paul II, to the back door of the Maryland Governor’s Mansion, where he conceived a fountain for the Governor’s companion. He works closely with architects to understand their language and extend their ideas into the landscape.

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This home, surrounded by a 38-acre meadow, is built in the International Style. The design, which emerged during the 1920s and 1930s during the Bauhaus movement, favors balance over symmetry, transparency in materials, and minimal ornamentation. It remains popular because it can fit in anywhere, in any country. In reaction to this aesthetic and modern mid-century architecture “with a sense of placelessness,” Graham began to search for what he calls “narratives embedded in the land.” He composes these narratives by examining the region’s history and the composition, geology, and forms of the earth. Then, Graham translates what he finds into a design that is in dialogue with the architecture it surrounds.

For example, for this project in Bluemont, Virginia, Graham’s task was to make the house harmonious amidst forest and vast meadows. The land presented him with a historical narrative of old farm fields and wood groves, once fertile ground for settlers. Instead of nestling the home against the tree line, which the architect proposed, he placed it in a clearing. He shaped this into a contemporary story with the architecture at its center and lands flowing from, to, and around it. “I thought of it as ripples in a pond … the house, the terrace, the lawn and the meadow move outward. Sometimes the ripples are circles, sometimes they are squares,” he says. The driveway winds its way in a circular pattern to the house, which, as one progresses through time, emerges like a piece of sculpture.

The overall design mirrors the circle of life itself—the grounds mature, the family grows, the story continues.

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Soliloquy

This loggia and gardens belong to a home located on a steep, almost vertical slope in Langley, Virginia. The residents, a couple who values education, wanted an environment for themselves and their children that encouraged not just play, but also thought, solitude, and reflection.

To bring form and stability to uneven ground and add beauty, Graham turned to both architecture and landscape architecture. He designed a pool and, for drama, a classical Roman loggia. Geometrical terraces reshape and temper the slopes. Some walls have single but powerful words inscribed upon them, such as “Think.� It is this feeling of thoughts unspoken, of soliloquies to come, that add to the introspective atmosphere created by this loggia. Its columns, due to space restrictions, were placed within inches of the pool. This building feat has its rewards: on clear evenings, the pool is their perfect mirror.

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A Glimpse

This small garden is located in Cathedral Heights, in Washington, D.C., and situated on the side of a townhouse near Wisconsin Avenue. When designing the tiny space, Graham contemplated indoor-outdoor connections and materials. To transform blank walls into views, he chose perennials with diverse foliage that become especially beautiful when illuminated.

Other specimens filter sun and cast shade patterns. The garden is designed for privacy and protection. High walls provide inhabitants with a sense of invisibility.

The wood slat partial walls form an unusual outdoor foyer. The cut-out in the wall was designed for a wind chime but looks like an ancient window where a dwarf or tiny gatekeeper might peer out and question you. Visitors are not encouraged to enter the garden.

However, they are invited to glimpse and admire. “It is as much a look-into garden as a be-in garden,� explains Graham. The imaginings are all a part of the pleasure.

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East, West

The Naval Academy today is impressive, but early on, the grounds were inferior to the buildings and composed of utilitarian walkways and leftover spaces. Graham studied the bay front and naval history and walked the site many times. He came across found objects, such as a massive anchor. With plantings, he drew attention to this symbol of naval strength while transforming it into a piece of public art. He conceived of a walkway adorned with a Compass Rose, which points East and West, suggesting work accomplished and yet to be. The walkway is now almost a destination, with an iron fence undulating like the sea and lamps resembling lighthouses.

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The Governor’s garden and fountain may be one of Graham’s

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hedge and orchestrated plantings around a fountain that, in its

companion of then-Maryland Governor William Donald

essence, celebrates Maryland and the flora and fauna of the Bay.

Schaefer, asked Graham to create a public garden from the

At first glance, the fountain looks Victorian, explains Graham,

leftover space at the back of the Mansion. Graham studied

and pays homage to the Mansion’s early architecture. However,

the awkward configuration barricaded by a hedge and decided

upon inspection, the statue is asymmetrical and looks different

it needed a focal point, perhaps some kind of fountain.

from every angle. Its three tiers include corn, crabs, tobacco, terrapins, the Baltimore Oriole, the state bird, and the Maryland

He sketched fountains on Boston Commons and roamed

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living brings great beauty and pleasure as well as special costs, responsibilities, and restrictions.

Many of those restrictions are designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay. In Anne Arundel County, there is a buffer zone for waterfront properties, which limits any kind of development within one hundred feet of the shoreline. Another restriction allows for no more than 15–31 percent of impervious surfaces for any one site.

When an Annapolis homeowner decided to install a swimming pool for his South River home, these factors came into play. To comply with county and state setback requirements, the pool is located on the side of the house rather than in between the house and the river.

But this side location offers an advantage. When the homeowners look out the window, the pool does not distract from their views of the South River, especially of concern during the winter when the pool is covered.

The pool is designed to accommodate both lap and recreational swimming. The homeowner wanted a pool for his family’s enjoyment and because he had been a swimmer in high school and college and continues to swim, including the 4.4-mile Chesapeake Bay swim. In preparing for that swim, he practices in both the pool and the South River.

Since this family moved into their home on Melvin Road, they have remodeled their property a number of times, beginning with the house itself. Working with architect Leo Wilson of Hammond Wilson Architects in Annapolis, they added a wing onto the two storied contemporary house, which required removing a large deck attached to the back of the house.

The newly designed house, built by Pyramid Builders, with its gambrial roof, is influenced by Dutch Colonial and Shingle Style residential architecture. In addition to the new wing, the homeowners added family and game rooms, and a second kitchen in the lower level, making outdoor entertaining more convenient.

Following the home remodel, the homeowners turned to the landscape, including the pool addition. Oehme van Sweden and Associates, a firm in Washington, D.C., conceived the initial pool and landscape plan. McHale Landscape Design of Annapolis made revisions to the plan and brought the whole project into fruition.

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Each landscape project brings its own special challenges. In this case, the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system next to the house had to be relocated. In addition, to construct the pool so close to the house, Steve McHale notes that the house had to be underpinned to provide more support to the foundation.

The pool, by the Sunset Group of Crofton, is built with Pennsylvania fieldstone walls in a dry impression coupled with water scupper wall fountains. So that you can enter the pool area from the front of the house, McHale constructed steps with Pennsylvania bluestone slaps. The patio consists of blue stone in dry packed cement with tight joints, with each stone cut to fit.

Both the fieldstone and bluestone are “natural stones with earthy colors that provide interesting texture and blend easily with setting,” notes McHale. Along the wall, McHale also built a bench that opens up and serves as equipment storage.

The plantings give the area a richly colored and textured character.

Hakone grass and Nikko Blue hydrangea grow in planters between the pool and house. Panicum, iris, hibiscus, and purple moor grass border the bed along the property line near the water. McHale used other native plants, including Baptisia, purple coneflower, feather reed grass, cardinal flower, liatris, and carex.

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Saint Anne’s Church: A Romanesque Beauty on Church Circle

By Chip Bohl Photography by Geoffrey Hodgdon

When Sir Francis Nicholson designed the city plan of Annapolis in 1694, he formed two monumental street circles on the highest points overlooking the harbor and Chesapeake Bay. State Circle provides a most commanding setting for the State House and seat of government. Church Circle, the location of St. Anne’s Church, is smaller, and on slightly lower ground, but in many ways has a greater visual impact on the city.

Church Circle is the hinge between Main Street and West Street.

Probably the only salient feature on the Annapolis peninsula before Nicholson’s plan was the horse path from western lands to the natural harbor. This path was formed by the natural topography. Situated on the highest ground between Spa Creek and College Creek (now West Street), it lead to the most gradual slope into the natural harbor (now Main Street). If

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you stand at the south side of St. Anne’s Church, near Captain John Worthington’s 1701 grave, you can look down Main Street to the harbor and look out West Street, the land route to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. It is not hard to imagine that the placement of the church building was in respect to this ancient path. It is one explanation for the fact that the building is not in the center of the circle and the front door is not precisely centered on West Street.

Nicholson was a staunch supporter of the Church of England.

He believed strongly that the Church should play an integral part in the development of Annapolis. His placement of Church Circle had the profound effect that upon entering the city either by land or by water, the church building would dominate the approach.

Opposite: The church was built just before the Civil War in the Romanesque architectural style. The repetitive semicircular arches in the walls surround the arched windows. The steeple was completed shortly after the war in a Gothic architectural style. The town clock is in fact owned and operated by the City of Annapolis.

Above, far right: The eagle lectern was donated by the widow of James Iredell Waddell, commodore of the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah. The exuberant design is all brass, including the inscription in memory of the commodore to “make him to be numbered with the Saints everlasting.”

The building we see today is the third church structure.

The first was erected within five years of Nicholson’s plan and was the only brick church in Maryland. This building was demolished in 1775 to make way for a larger church. It is hard to believe that the church vestry could not have foreseen the pending “unpleasantries” of the American Revolution. The unfortunate timing of the new construction was halted by the scarcity of materials and the flaccid community support for building a new edifice for the Church of England. By 1785 work began on a new

View of Annapolis, Maryland (1800). New York Public Library, I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection. Image courtesy of Hammond-Harwood House. This 1800 watercolor depicts the second church building built in 1785 and burned in 1858. Notice the path along the church that directly connects West Street with Main Street. The view is from Franklin Street, with St. John’s College McDowell Hall to the left and the State House to the right.

church without ties to England, and was completed by 1792. It is this church building we can see in the 1800 watercolor of Annapolis.

This building burned in 1858 due to a faulty furnace. It was rebuilt immediately and is the building that exists today. The second building shares many architectural similarities with the present building. Both are Romanesque architecture, which was popular in the 1800s before the Civil War. Romanesque architecture features perfectly circular round arches, frequently paired one inside of another. The style tends to be severe with little architectural ornamentation. The familiar 1858 bird’s eye print of Annapolis by

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Edward Sachse illustrates the second church building with two steeples, making a more complete Romanesque composition. However, the Civil War interrupted the construction of the twosteeple design. In 1866 the single spire we see today was completed in a Gothic style. The octagonal taper sits on a square brick base and includes the town clock, which is actually the property of the City of Annapolis, who is responsible for its care and maintenance.

Fortunately we can set aside all issues of the separation of church and state and enjoy the remarkable beauty of the edifice and the quarter hour chimes.

The interior of the church is magnificent. It has been recently restored using original paint colors with lovely understated stenciling. The high ceiling of the sanctuary is lit by Tiffany stained glass windows. Of special note is the bronze lectern capped by an American eagle with wings spread and talons extended. The lectern was given to the church by the widow of James Iredell Waddell, commodore of the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah.

After the war, Waddell cooled off in England, returning in 1881 to build his beautiful English Shavian–inspired home on the corner of College Avenue and Prince George Street. The lectern is a great example of bombastic design, demanding much visual attention. No less demanding is the lectern inscription with the commodore’s death date: “make him to be numbered with the Saints everlasting.”

St. Anne’s Church and Church Circle are defining elements of the Annapolis chemistry. It is impossible to imagine Annapolis without them. Take a moment to enjoy this exceptional church building, especially the interior.

Then stroll the circle to absorb the essence of Sir Francis Nicholson’s brilliant urban design.

Chip Bohl is an architect, practicing in Annapolis for 33 years. Visit www.BohlArchitects.com

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Each year homeowners in Annapolis open their gardens to the general public for one weekend, allowing visitors a glimpse of the beauty and seclusion of these usually private landscaped settings. They do so to benefit the Hammond-Harwood House Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining one of the most beautiful examples of classical eighteenthcentury architecture in the country. The annual event, known as the Secret Garden Tour, began in 2000 as an informal, mid-week tour of just a few local gardens but over the past thirteen years has blossomed into a weekend event featuring a bevy of verdant spaces each time. More than ninety gardens in the historic Annapolis area have been featured on the Secret Garden Tour, each with a different character and type of charm: new and old, grand and intimate, historically influenced and decidedly modern, and all worth exploring.

This year marks the fourteenth Secret Garden Tour and is set to provide the opportunities for inspiration and contemplation that visitors have come to eagerly anticipate. The tour will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2, from

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noon to 5 p.m. each day. The neighborhood spotlighted in this year’s tour is the eastern side of downtown historic Annapolis.

The garden of the Hammond-Harwood House is included in the tour and will give visitors a chance to experience the effects of a quiet green space in the midst of a bustling town in the same way our eighteenth-century ancestors did. The House’s neighbor across the street, the Chase-Lloyd House, will also be opening its gates to visitors, offering another glimpse into Annapolis’s long and eventful history.

The other gardens on the Secret Garden Tour reflect an exciting variety of landscape types. Just a block away from the Hammond-Harwood House, tour guests can see a modern garden planted for a historic nineteenth-century home. The garden has several formal details and shows how an in-town garden can create privacy. Even the Annapolis Bookstore is getting in on the act, perhaps surprising patrons who did not realize they could have a helping of greenery with their books and coffee.

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Tickets for the Secret Garden Tour are $25 in advance and may be purchased on the Hammond-Harwood House’s website (www.hammondharwoodhouse.org) or by calling 410-263-4683. On the weekend of the tour, tickets will be $30 and only available at the Hammond-Harwood House, which is located at 19 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis.

The tour program, which includes a map of all of the garden locations as well as a description of each garden, serves as the ticket and is good for both days. Parking is available on the street or at nearby parking garages; there is the Hillman Parking Garage on Gorman Street or the Bladen Street Garage on the corner of Calvert and St. John’s Streets, which is free on weekends.

Both are a short stroll from the HammondHarwood House, where the tour programs will be available for pickup.

Included in each program is a coupon for a free tour of the Hammond-Harwood House that may be used anytime this year.

The House, referred to as the “Jewel of Annapolis,” is certainly worth a visit. It is a unique example of period Palladian design and looks almost exactly as it did in the eighteenth century.

Allison Titman is the Assistant Director and Curator at the Hammond-Harwood House. When not busy with historical matters, she enjoys experiencing all of the beauty and fun Annapolis has to offer.

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Tickets for the Secret Garden Tour are $25 in advance and may be purchased on the Hammond-Harwood House’s website, www.hammondharwoodhouse.org, or by calling 410.263.4683.

On the weekend of the Tour, tickets will be $30 and only available at the Hammond-Harwood House itself, which is located at 19 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis.

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By Gay Jervey Chances are that if you are embarking on a landscaping project for the first time, you may find yourself confused by the various professional designations that populate this field. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. There are shades of gray and overlapping areas of expertise. What distinguishes a landscape designer from a landscape architect?

What will my project require?

Landscape architecture and landscape design are kindred arts that share similar traits. They are both multidisciplinary fields that combine aspects of architecture, fine arts, design, botany, geology, the earth sciences, ecology, and environmental psychology. However, as Hal Quayle of Quayle and Company, a landscaping firm in Severna Park, MD, suggests, whether a project necessitates one or the other often revolves around its scope and intricacy.

Point of Difference: Formal Education and Training Indeed, there are key dissimilarities between the two specialties.

For one, a landscape architect is a licensed professional much like a lawyer or doctor, who has obtained at the very least an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from an accredited college or university. Many go on to postgraduate study and ultimately receive a master’s degree. Landscape architects attend courses in a vast and eclectic range of subjects, including urban design, architecture, horticulture and botany, ecology, soils and geology, presentation and construction techniques, and, notably, civil and structural engineering. As such, the training and educational process for a landscape architect is in-depth and takes years to complete.

In addition—and this is key—landscape architects must successfully complete a rigorous registration exam. Only those who have met their respective state requirements may call themselves landscape architects. Furthermore, a landscape architect must undergo continuing education on a regular

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basis to stay up-to-date on new techniques and advancements in the industry.

By contrast, there are no specific credentials or degrees that a landscape designer must fulfill. Some have received their training on the job, although others have earned undergraduate and masters degrees in design and are officially educated in such disciplines as horticulture, design, and nursery and planting standards. But, and here’s the rub, there is no mandated education or certification.

Having said that, the Association of Professional Landscape Designers sponsors a certification program that confers professional recognition to landscape designers based on established standards of excellence and the extent of one’s experience. Currently, 20 percent of APLD members are certified.

One interesting point to note is that in some instances designers may have degrees in architecture but just may not have taken

the registration exam and are consequently barred from referring to or advertising themselves as landscape architects. Simply put, a landscape architect can be a landscape designer, but a landscape designer cannot be a landscape architect, unless they have fulfilled both the education and registration requirements. Given the rigorous requirements to be a landscape architect, you can expect that their services will likely cost more.

Sometimes a Question of Scale and Scope By and large, landscape architects typically handle larger-scale matters with multiple elements that require complicated technical design plans and construction-ready documents. Thus, their expertise is often called for on projects that include extensive hardscaping—the parts of the grounds that consist of structures such as walkways, retaining walls, decks, and patios.

“Some municipalities require that you have a signed and sealed landscape architect who has a degree and has taken the exam and is registered for you to do certain work,” explains Eric Groft, a principal at Oehme van Sweden and Associates, a landscape architecture firm in Washington, D.C. Landscape architects specialize in both commercial and residential work, as opposed to designers who tend to focus on residential projects. Like landscape architects, designers are skilled in softscaping—orchestrating the implementation of flowers, plants, shrubs, trees, and so forth.

Landscape architects and designers alike often work in “design build” firms that handle projects from day one through completion. Under the design-build model, one entity works under a single contract with the project owner to provide design and construction services. Many feel this mode of delivery answers the client’s wishes for a single-point of responsibility that, ultimately, can reduce risks, duplication, and overall costs.

“We do it all in house,” says Quayle. “We take care of the whole process, and I believe that this is a very good way of handling it. You are implementing your own thoughts and know how you came up with the process. And you can also make changes as you see them and adapt on site as needed.”

A Long-Term Relationship: Hire Someone Who Listens There is no question that the size and expense of your project will dictate whom you hire. At the end of the day, though, less concrete considerations come into play.

“You bring someone on based on what your needs and budget are. But you also have to follow your instincts,” says Matt Ciminelli, owner of Ciminelli’s Landscape Services in Lothian, MD. “If you like somebody and their ideas—and you can tell that they really listen to you—don’t be afraid to go with them, because it can be a long-term relationship. I have customers that I’ve worked with for twenty-five years now.”

“You had better hire someone you like, who really hears you and understands your vision,” Groft agrees. “Because you are going to know them for a lifetime. We are involved from the first site visit report through installation of the last plant. And then we are available for reviewing maintenance procedures and making revisions. I make spring visits to all of my gardens. I walk the site with my clients to see how every plant and tree is doing. They are like my children.”

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Leading Lights

William Paca Gardens, Historic Annapolis

A sixth-generation Marylander whose roots hark back to Charles Carroll and David Clark, of Clarksville, Maryland, Robert C. Clark became Historic Annapolis' president and CEO in January 2013. An Annapolis resident for many years, he built a career as a securities and marketing executive with Paine Webber, E. F. Hutton and other large financial institutions. Equipped with a background in finance and passion for history, he hopes to expand and invigorate the organization and invites all Annapolitans to help.

Much of your career has centered around high finance.

What motivated you to accept your new position at Historic Annapolis?

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Yes, I spent a lot of years in the world of finance, but my true passion is history. Personally my family is connected to Annapolis through David Clark who came from Ireland to run a mill for Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Having such a concrete connection sparked my interest in all things historic very early on. Walking the brick-lined streets of Annapolis and enjoying the picturesque view of Main Street always felt like a gift from someone I never got a chance to properly thank. Becoming president is a win-win for me; I get to be around the history I love and say thank you to everyone who committed themselves to making Annapolis what it is today. It’s my turn to give back now. Just in case anyone else feels the same, they don’t have to become President –simply become a member!

A New Director and a New Chapter in the History of Historic Annapolis

By Kymberly Taylor Photography By Geoffrey Hodgdon

As the new president, what are your top three priorities for the year?

In the coming year we will be focused on preservation, education, and funding. Our new senior preservation officer will be reinvigorating our historic building marker and easement programs, and overseeing restoration maintenance on some of the buildings we manage so they can continue to proudly serve as a model for preservation.

We believe children are the future stewards of Annapolis and want to connect them to their history and make them life-long preservationists. Next year’s educational efforts will be geared toward increasing our activities for school children and families both in and out of the classroom.

Of course our biggest priority is securing funding to make it all possible. Not only is Historic Annapolis focused on raising programmatic and operational money, but we would like to build our endowment so all of our projects and programs have a more secure stream of revenue in the future.

Why is Historic Annapolis truly important to Annapolis?

Is it all about the buildings or does it change lives?

It’s both. We preserve the buildings and fill them with quality programs that enhance people’s lives in many different ways.

Whether it is the simple enjoyment of strolling through the two-acre pleasure garden at the William Paca House, or taking in inspiring stories at our Freedom Bound: Runaways of the Chesapeake exhibition, we want visitors to learn something new

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and feel connected to history. One of the ways we do this best is through Annapolis Footprints, our after-school program that uses first person interpreters in period costumes to bring to life important people of the past. Children learn about history as they retrace the footsteps of people like George Washington and are encouraged to think about what kind of footprints they want to leave behind. In a recent video about the program (http://vimeo.com/61356495) parents and teachers described it as lifechanging and instrumental in creating historically literate citizens.

Tell us something about Historic Annapolis that most people do not know but should.

• We recently changed our name from Historic Annapolis Foundation to just Historic Annapolis to emphasize the point that we are not a foundation that has money to give away. It is quite the opposite.

We are a non-profit organization whose viability is dependent on securing contributions annually.

• When it comes to getting approval on exterior building work in the Historic District, private home owners often confuse us with the city’s Historic Preservation Commission. Historic Annapolis works in partnership with the HPC and serves as an information resource to both the Commission and residents, but it is the HPC that ultimately provides approval.

• Historic Annapolis believes that it is our job to protect and promote the unique history and built environment of Annapolis. That is why Historic Annapolis will continue to be a public voice for preservation when the city debates decisions that affect the character of our city— like the City Dock Master Plan.

Kymberly Taylor has a BA in journalism from Boston University and an MFA in Creating Writing from Columbia University.

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