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Afton Villa - The Birth and Rebirth of a Ninteenth-Century Louisiana Garden (Hardcover)
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Afton Villa - The Birth and Rebirth of a Ninteenth-Century Louisiana Garden (Hardcover)
Series: Reading the American Landscape
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Genevieve Trimble's remarkable story of Afton Villa began with a
tragedy. In 1963, fire ravaged the forty-room Victorian Gothic
plantation home on the historic estate, bringing to ashes over 170
years of history. Over the next decade, its once-regal serpentine
entryway and carefully laid out gardens gradually deteriorated, as
vines strangled the rows of azaleas that once welcomed guests. A
place of enchantment crumbled toward extinction. The irreversible
loss of Afton Villa's once pristine nineteenth-century gardens and
carefully built stately home did, however, inspire Trimble to seize
the opportunity to protect the derelict property from oblivion and
she and her husband purchased the estate in 1972. This ambitious
move initiated a forty-year regeneration of one of the most
treasured and legendary gardens in Louisiana. Afton Villa documents
Trimble's decades-long restoration project while providing a
history of the original owners and paying tribute to the other
people who contributed to its rebirth. Focusing on preservation,
Trimble reveals how the garden's original footprint survived as
well as how she thoughtfully introduced new flora into the terraced
landscape, including the foundation ruins of the house, under the
guidance of landscape architect Neil G. Odenwald. With steep
learning curves and devastating setbacks, including hurricane
destruction, each milestone in the recovery of Afton Villa marked a
triumph of collaborative will over adversity. Hundreds of visitors
every year journey to St. Francisville to enjoy the result of
Trimble's arduous and rewarding efforts. The moss-draped oaks
welcome them to a rolling vista of daffodils, cherry trees, and a
boxwood parterre as well as hundreds of other features in this
thirty-five-acre garden. With a vivid narrative and beautiful
images, Afton Villa: The Birth and Rebirth of a Nineteenth-Century
Louisiana Garden captures the story of this remarkable restoration.
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