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architect |
Joseph Carreiro |
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location |
Cory's Lane, Portsmouth |
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date |
1872 onwards |
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style |
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type |
topiary garden |
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This small country
estate in Portsmouth was purchased in 1872 by Thomas E. Brayton Green
Animals(1844-1939), Treasurer of the Union Cotton Manufacturing Company in
Fall River, Massachusetts. It consisted of seven acres of land, a white
clapboard summer residence, farm outbuildings, a pasture and a vegetable
garden. Alice Brayton, his daughter, made the estate her permanent
residence in 1940.
Gardener Joseph Carreiro, superintendent of the property from 1905 to 1945, and his son-in-law, George Mendonca, superintendent until 1985, were responsible for creating the topiaries. Miss Brayton gave the estate its name because of the profusion of "green animals." There are 80 pieces of topiary throughout the gardens, including 21 animals and birds in addition to geometric figures and ornamental designs, sculpted from California privet, yew, and English boxwood. Green Animals is the oldest and most
northern topiary garden in the United States. Upon her death in 1972, at
the age of 94, Miss Brayton left Green Animals to The Preservation Society
of Newport County. Today, Green Animals remains as a rare example of a
self-sufficient estate combining formal topiaries, vegetable and herb
gardens, orchards and a Victorian house overlooking Narragansett Bay. |
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links |
http://www.newportmansions.org/ |