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1. SIHG_150412_052.JPG: Enid A. Haupt Garden: A popular urban oasis since its completion in 1987, the 4.2-acre Enid A. Haupt Garden comprises three distinct gardens. The design of each reflects the cultural and aesthetic influences celebrated in the Smithsonian Castle and the surrounding museums. (1) The Moongate Garden, next to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, draws design inspiration from the Temple of Heaven, a 15th-century religious complex in China. (2) The Victorian-style parterre extended the Castle's grand welcome through an expansive lawn and format plantings. (3) The Fountain Garden, located beside the National Museum of African Art, was modeled after the Alhambra, a 14th-century Moorish palace and fortress in Spain. The landscape design was a collaborative effort of Jean Paul Carlhian, FAIA, of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott; Sasaki Associates, Inc.; and Lester Collins, FASLA.
2. SIHG_150412_058.JPG: "Nature is my religion." -- Enid A. Haupt Philanthropist and publishing heiress Enil Annelberg Haupt (1906-2005) donated millions of dollars to support public gardens, horticultural institutions, and other green spaces in Washington, DC, New York, and around the world. Enid A. Haupt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Enid Annenberg Haupt (May 13, 1906 – October 25, 2005) was an American publisher and philanthropist whose gifts supported horticulture, the arts, architectural and historic preservation, and cancer research. She has been described as "the greatest patron American horticulture has ever known" by Gregory Long, the president of the New York Botanical Garden. Family and early years Haupt was born in Chicago to Sadie and Moses Annenberg, the founder of a publishing empire based on The Daily Racing Form and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She was fourth of eight children and last surviving child (seven girls and a boy) born to the couple; the boy was Walter H. Annenberg, who was to become a publisher and philanthropist in his own right. She grew up in Milwaukee. She was tall and thin as a young girl, and resolved to impress her older sisters by memorizing a new word each day. She attended Mount Ida Seminary in Newton, Massachusetts, during which time her family moved to New York. Her father was imprisoned for tax evasion during the 1930s and sentenced to two years in prison; he died in prison. Adult life and professional career In 1953, she was charged with publishing Seventeen magazine, a post she would hold until 1970. She also wrote "Young Living", a syndicated fashion, beauty and lifestyle column. Haupt's first marriage, to Norman Bensinger, ended in divorce; they had one child, Pamela Enid Bensinger (Nusbaum, Allen), (1929-1997). She later married Ira Haupt, who died in 1963. It was through this marriage that she became involved with gardening, particularly in the growing of flowers, after she encouraged her husband to help his gardeners find better jobs. Philanthropic legacy Haupt is quoted as often having said "Nature is my religion," and once told The New York Times "Books are the most important things in my life besides nature." As an heiress to a family fortune, she was able to make significant contributions to her personal causes and interests, foremost among which was horticulture. Haupt contributed the Haupt Fountains at the Ellipse located between the White House and the Washington Monument, and also a four-acre Victorian garden, known as the Enid A. Haupt Garden, on the south side of the Smithsonian Castle. The Enid A. Haupt Garden at the Smithsonian is intended by its architect, Jean Paul Carlihan, to interpret nearby museums. It is situated atop the underground portions of the Quadrangle building, which includes the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Asian art), and the S. Dillon Ripley Center. Accordingly, the end of the garden nearest the African Art museum contains a modern interpretation of an Islamic garden, and the end nearest the Sackler Gallery is accented with pink granite moongates. She donated River Farm, a 27-acre plantation, located near Mount Vernon and once owned by George Washington, to the American Horticultural Society. A Victorian style conservatory located in the New York Botanical Garden was saved from demolition through her efforts and funding. She spent large sums over the years to maintain the gardens of The Cloisters, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She contributed to the garden of Claude Monet in Giverny, France, and to Lady Bird Johnson's National Wildflower Research Center. Among her other contributions are works of art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, and funding for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. According to The New York Times, "The gift that gave her the most satisfaction, she said, was one of her earliest and least heralded: the Enid A. Haupt Glass Garden, a playground for children who are patients at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center." Enid Haupt died at age 99 at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut.
3. SIHG_150412_065.JPG: Built above an underground museum complex, the Haupt Garden is actually a rooftop garden. As such, the limited soil depth and the protection provided by the surrounding museums create a climate milder than is typical of the region.
4. SIHG_150412_086.JPG: The pillars of the Renwick Gallery were based on this 1849 drawing by James Renwick Jr., the architect of the Smithsonian Castle. They were constructed in the 1980s from the same kind of sandstone that was used to build the Castle.
5. SIHG_150909_113.JPG: Now Showing Paradise in Pots Hundreds of Tropical Plants on display for a limited time only
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Wikipedia Description: Enid A. Haupt Garden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Enid A. Haupt Garden is a 4.2 acre public garden in the Smithsonian complex, adjacent to the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It was designed to be a modern representation of American Victorian gardens as they appeared in the mid to late 19th century. It replaced an existing Victorian Garden which had been built to celebrate the nation's Bicentennial in 1976.

History

The garden opened on May 21, 1987 as part of the redesigned Castle quadrangle. It is named for Enid A. Haupt, who provided the $3 million endowment which financed its construction and maintenance. Initially approached with a request that she finance a small Zen garden within the quadrangle, after a review of the plans Haupt said that she was "not interested in putting money into a Zen garden...I'm only interested in financing the whole thing."

The quadrangle redesign project and the Smithsonian Gardens more broadly were part of the vision of the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, who felt that the museum experience should extend beyond the museums' buildings into the outdoor spaces.

The landscape design of the Garden featured the collaborative efforts of architect Jean Paul Carlhian, principal in the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott; Lester Collins, a landscape architect from Millbrook, New York; Sasaki Associates Inc. of Watertown, Massachusetts; and James R. Buckler, founding director of the Smithsonian's Office of Horticulture.

The central feature of the garden is a symmetrically patterned parterre, flanked by the Moongate Garden to the west and the Fountain Garden to the east. The parterre measures 144 feet long by 66 feet wide; the low-growing plants that fill out the series of diamonds, fleurs-de-lis, and scallops or swags that make up the design are changed every six months, typically in September and May.

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