The Rockery , also known as the Cairn Memorial , is an unusual war memorial designed by American gardener Frederick Law Olmsted. It is located in the center of North Easton Center in Easton, Massachusetts, where it forms a focal point for two H. H. Richardson buildings adjacent to their own Olmsted landscape.
Rockery was created in 1882 as a memorial to North Easton residents lost in the American Civil War, public areas, and pedestrian paths with North Easton views. It consists of boulders overgrown by a long, asymmetrical mound across an enchanting rural arch of H. H. Richardson near the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall.
In April 1882 Olmsted wrote to Oakes Angier Ames that such monuments were "the oldest and most enduring monument in the world", and with "beautiful plants rooted in them and emerging from their gaps or growing in top... it's much more exciting and fun to look at than a larger number of built from massive masonry and intricate sculptures. "He further explained that plants growing on rocky backdrops would symbolize a war of peace tame.
For years, the rocks slackened and collapsed, the stairs collapsed, and the gardens were covered with weeds. At one point, the Rockery was lowered from its original height of 25 feet and an electric pole was installed at its eastern end. However, in recent years, Rockery has been restored and is being actively maintained.
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References
- Kenneth A. Breisch, Henry Hobson Richardson and Small US Public Library: Study in Typology , MIT Press, 1997, page 210. ISBNÃ, 0-262-52346-9.
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