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The New Jersey Chapter of Landscape Architects organized a tour in Princeton of the Drumthwacket Estate, the official residence of the governor of New Jersey. The group of landscape architects, many of them alumni from our program, explored the complex history of the Drumthwacket Estate and Gardens from its creation as a bucolic landscape in the 19th century, through the building of the Italianate Garden in 1905, and onto its decline and reconstruction in the late twentieth century.
Under the guidance of Dr. Wolfram Hoefer and the director of the Drumthwacket Foundation, Robyn Brenner, participants further discussed the needs of representation at the official residence of the Governor of NJ versus the demands of historic preservation and the opportunities and limitations of engaging the Mercer County Master Gardener Program in the development maintenance of the site.
For more information on the Rutgers involvement at Drumthwacket see:
Drumthwacket Garden – Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES)